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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which of the following times is Flamel told to be available at the Eiffel Tower?

2. Which of the following is the first line of the novel?

3. With which of the following does Francis mark Flamel?

4. With which of the following does *Sophie* strike the waxen attacker in Sacré-Coeur?

5. Into a fountain in which of the following Ojai parks does Josh report having driven a Hummer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Flamel define leygates to Josh?

2. How is a tulpa defined in the novel?

3. When introduced, how is Dagon described?

4. What fate does the sphinx envision for Perenelle?

5. What, in the novel, is the DGSE, which Machiavelli heads?

6. How does Scathach explain her sobriquet “Shadow” (100)?

7. What reasons does Machiavelli have for jealousy of Dee?

8. What cover story does Machiavelli purpose to spread if he captures Flamel’s group at Sacré-Coeur?

9. How does Saint-Germain note his distraction is likely to be explained away?

10. What do the Newmans see when they arrive at Saint-Germain’s home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the beginning of Chapter Thirty-eight, Josh realizes that Clarent gives its wielder knowledge of what it cuts, citing that transmission as the reason some fear to wield it (321-22). Clarent is identified as a cursed blade, implying that such transmission is undesirable, and Josh identifies that transmission as a temptation to its use. How is such a thing a curse? What in the novel suggests that it is one? How does it suggest such?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent can the novel be considered a Bildungsoman, a coming-of-age narrative? For which character? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Sophie and Josh are presented as deuteragonists in the novel. Which of them is, in fact, the primary character? What in the text and its contexts suggests that s/he is? How does it do so?

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