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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 the end of Chapter 25, Penryn narrates of her lack of success in gathering information from Raffe, “So much for my information mining. I guess I'll never be a spymaster like” who?

2. As Penryn changes clothes in the SUV and looks out at the people around the car, she notes, “Funny I still think of men like that as homeless even though none of us have homes anymore. They were probably South of Market hipsters back in the day. The day being” when?

3. Which of Paige’s friends is described as a “quadriplegic who needed a pump to keep him breathing” in Chapter 31?

4. Who is the waiter that brings Raffe’s room service in Chapter 32?

5. Penryn says in Chapter 22 that her former neighbor used to keep what displayed on his mantel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gory scene do Raffe and Penryn encounter in Chapter 24? How does Penryn react?

2. How is the reunion of Penryn’s family described in Chapter 40?

3. Where do Penryn and Raffe find a vehicle to drive in Chapter 26? Whom do they encounter in this setting?

4. How does Raffe save Penryn in Chapter 23? What does Penryn do to help?

5. Who attacks Penryn in Chapter 38? How does Penryn react?

6. Why does Raffe solicit Josiah’s help in Chapter 31? How does Josiah respond?

7. Describe the chaos at the camp in Chapter 21. Where do Penryn and Raffe go?

8. What angel does Raffe watch in Chapter 29? What does he ask Penryn do to?

9. Where does the Tweedle brother take Penryn in Chapter 34?

10. What information does Penryn learn as she listens to Raffe and Josiah in Chapter 31?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of Angelfall in the first chapters and the author’s use of imagery in the setting. How might you imagine the Silicon Valley area prior to the apocalypse? How has it changed in the period before the novel opens? Who “rules the streets” in Cassie’s neighborhood?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Penryn’s discovery of the creatures in the glass tubes in Chapters 35 through 37. What do you think these creatures represent symbolically in the novel? How does Penryn respond to their appearance? How do these creatures explain the prior events of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Watchers and the Nephilim described in Raffe’s “history lesson” in Chapters 25 and 26. How are these creatures described? What literary or Biblical allusion is used in Raffe’s depictions? What happened to the Watchers?

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