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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. Which of the following is *Sophie* able to see from her room at Saint-Germain’s home?

2. Which of the following kinds of creature does Perenelle encounter beneath Alcatraz?

3. Of which of the following does Joan report dreaming?

4. By which of the following names does Sophie note the Sleeping God was known among the Babylonians?

5. At which of the following national monuments does Josh note learning his fear of snakes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Catacombs of Paris explained?

2. What reasons does Saint-Germain suggest the Witch of Endor has for disliking him?

3. What reason does Flamel note for assigning Clarent to Josh?

4. Why, per Areop-Enap, does Dee not kill the Old Spider?

5. Why, per Perenelle, does de Ayala find no bones when spiders consume homunculi?

6. What does Saint-Germain note is the most dangerous form of immortality, and why?

7. What does Flamel note as the first secret of the Codex?

8. What plans had Sophie had for her year that have now been overset by her entry into the occult world?

9. Why do the Disir note they will attack at dawn?

10. How are the Disir described when Machiavelli and Dee initially meet with them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the following passage:

“Those are just names,” Scathach muttered, sounding embarrassed.

“They sound like more than names,” Sophie pressed. “They sound like titles…titles you’ve earned?” she persisted.

“Well, I’ve had lots of names,” Scathach said, “names my friends gave me, named my foes called me” (100).

What is the difference between a name and a title? What in the novel and in experience support the distinction? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Online commentaries note that the reliance of YA on teenage protagonists is, in some senses, an indictment of the adults present in YA literature. For what do the adults in The Magician deserve indictment, as indicated by the novel? How does the novel indicate the indictment is deserved?

Essay Topic 3

Notably, the third primary division of the text—Monday, 4th June—has but one chapter. What effect does the compression have on the contents of the division? How is that effect produced?

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