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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Penryn describe seeing television footage of angels “plucking a military helicopter out of the sky and tossing it into” the crowd in Chapter 2?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

2. Penryn says in Chapter 2 that her sister Paige has been a vegetarian since what age?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

3. What does Penryn say in Chapter 11 is “a pointless and sometimes dangerous exercise”?
(a) "Going to church."
(b) "Challenging weirdness."
(c) "Voting."
(d) "Asking questions."

4. Where does Penryn hide her pack and the angel wings as she watches the men take Raffe into the camp in Chapter 15?
(a) Under a rug.
(b) In the top branches of a tree.
(c) In a tree hollow.
(d) By a rock in the river.

5. In Chapter 14, Penryn says of Raffe, “As the old joke goes, he doesn’t need to outrun the bear, he just needs to” what?
(a) "Run fast."
(b) "Outrun me."
(c) "Get out of the way."
(d) "Kill the bear."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Penryn describes the blood seeping through the angel’s bandages as appearing like what kind of patterns on his back?

2. What phrase does Penryn decide is an oxymoron as she fights the wingless angel in Chapter 8?

3. What road does Penryn plan to take into San Francisco in order to avoid highly populated areas as long as possible in Chapter 13?

4. When Penryn and Raffe find the half-eaten family, Penryn suggests they get out of their surroundings: “We’re in an open field, and I feel as nervous as a field mouse looking at” what?

5. What does Obi tell Penryn and Raffe his men intend to do with the cannibals once they catch them in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Penryn and her mother carry downstairs from their condo in Chapter 1? What is their plan for traveling?

2. What does Penryn do with the wounded angel at the end of Chapter 5? Why?

3. How does Penryn go about engaging Anita in a fight in Chapter 20? How does the fight end?

4. What impressions do the camp soldiers express of Raffe and Penryn in Chapter 16?

5. How are the dead bodies described that Penryn and Raffe encounter in Chapter 12? What other items are found nearby?

6. What conversation takes place between Penryn and the wounded angel in Chapter 6?

7. What does Penryn do after Paige is abducted in Chapter 5? What does Paige say about the angel parts?

8. How are the angels described in Chapter 3? What are they doing when Penryn’s family encounters them?

9. What does Penryn find when she follows Raffe’s captors to the camp in Chapter 15?

10. What does Obadiah tell Penryn and Raffe about the resistance movement in Chapter 18?

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