In Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Esther Summerson's first-person story and an anonymous narrator's story of the Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit both keep advancing through the novel. Which plot structure is this?

In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver visits Lilliput, then Brobdingnag, then Laputa, then the land of the Houyhnhnms, and each voyage stands on its own. Which plot structure is this?

In William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Amelia Sedley's story and Becky Sharp's story each keep advancing, then meet again in Brussels before Waterloo. Which plot structure is this?

In George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Gwendolen Harleth's unhappy marriage and Daniel Deronda's search for his family's past both keep advancing and cross many times. Which plot structure is this?

In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Dorothea Brooke's story runs through the whole novel. Dr. Lydgate's story begins after hers and builds through the middle of the novel and his failures affect how the ending turns out. Which is the developed second plot line?

In Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim drift down the river and meet a new set of people at each stop. Which plot structure is this?

In Charles Dickens's Bleak House, the Chancery suit runs beside Esther Summerson's own story, and the two lines cross more than once. What does the Chancery-suit line show that Esther's story alone could not?

Which fact best shows that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has an episodic plot?

In Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp is a livelier, more entertaining character than Amelia Sedley. Which detail should decide whether the plot is parallel, not which woman is more interesting to read about?

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, each scene after Duncan's murder follows from the scene before it. Why is the play not episodic?

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collects twelve stories. Each is a complete case in a different setting, and the cases do not affect one another. What holds the stories together?

In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Doctor Manette's past in Paris and Darnay's life in London both advance and come together when Darnay is put on trial. Which structure is this?

In Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, a reader can remove one of Mr. Pickwick's early misadventures and the rest of the novel still makes sense. Which plot structure does this point to?

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's father Pap has scenes early in the novel. After Huck escapes him, Pap gets no more scenes of his own. Only in the final chapter does Jim reveal Pap is dead. What is his story in this novel?

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the courtship of Jane and Bingley and the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy both develop through the novel and affect each other. Which structure is this?

A novel follows a traveling vet through a year of farm calls. Each call brings a new household, is settled by the end of its chapter, and none of it carries into the next. Which plot structure is this?

Every voyage in Gulliver's Travels carries the same satirical tone. Which detail should decide whether the plot is episodic?

In a novel about a fishing town, the harbor committee is mentioned in several chapters but never has scenes of its own and never changes what happens. Why does it NOT count as a second plot line?

In A Tale of Two Cities, Doctor Manette's story runs from the start and Charles Darnay's story enters in later chapters. Which question best tests whether the plot is parallel?

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, one story can be removed from the collection and the rest of the stories still make sense on their own.