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Erin MorgensternThe Night Circus
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Answer Key
Page numbers refer to the 2012 edition of the novel from Anchor Books.
Part I
Reading Check
1. Miranda (Part I, Page 11)
2. A tree (Part I, Page 37)
3. The Lovers (Part I, Page 103)
4. Harvard (Part I, Page 110)
Short Answer
1. Prospero is a powerful, cruel magician who practices illusion magic. He is also Celia’s father, though he does not make this discovery until she is five years old. (Part I)
2. She is a fashionable old friend of Chandresh’s mother and a famous Romanian ballerina. (Part I, Page 72)
3. He supposedly dies of heart failure, but he actually splits his atoms in order to be in multiple places at once. This trick renders him ghostlike, as he is unable to recombine them to become whole again. (Part I, Page 80)
4. Chandresh and his guests discuss forming the Night Circus. This occurs in a narrative flashback to 1895. (Part I, Page 81)
Part II
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