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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. What does Penryn keep the angel’s wings wrapped in during their journey?

2. When Penryn is captured in Chapter 16, she notes that “Raffe makes a low sound in his throat that reminds me of” what?

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. What is the name of the man that Penryn says was their neighbor until a week ago in Chapter 5?

5. Penryn says that her father has a master’s degree in what subject in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Penryn do with the angel’s sword in Chapter 4? Why?

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

7. Where do Raffe and Penryn travel in Chapter 13? How is the setting described?

8. How is the outdoor setting described in Chapter 2? What objects fall from the sky in this chapter?

9. What does Obadiah West say the resistance’s objective is in attacking the angels in Chapter 17?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Describe and analyze the character of Raffe in the novel. What does Raffe look like? How powerful is he? Why does Penryn find it difficult to trust Raffe? How does Raffe’ character evolve throughout the narrative?

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