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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 use to break open the glass feeding tubes with the human victims and the creatures in them in Chapter 40?
2. What are the crowds by the gates doing as women are admitted or turned away by the entrance guards in Chapter 27?
3. The scanty dress that Raffe hands Penryn to change into in the SUV reminds her of a dress she borrowed from what friend when she talked her into going clubbing with her in Chapter 26?
4. In Chapter 21, Penryn says, “Watching the soldiers leave is like watching the basement door close, shutting out the only light in the house and leaving me alone in the monster-filled darkness.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
5. Of whom does Penryn say in Chapter 32 that if he had seen the vision of the angels flying in the circular corridor “with the sun streaming down from the glass dome, he'd have fallen to his knees and painted 'til he was blind”?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Raffe leave Penryn in Chapter 21? What does Penryn do?
2. How does Penryn communicate with the Tweedle brother in Chapter 34? What does she learn from him?
3. How does Raffe explain his religious views in Chapter 33?
4. Where do Penryn and Raffe find a vehicle to drive in Chapter 26? Whom do they encounter in this setting?
5. What information does Raffe relate to Penryn of the Watchers and the Nephilim in Chapter 25?
6. How is Penryn saved from the gang of thugs that surrounds her and the Tweedle brother in Chapter 35?
7. How is the setting of the interior of the aerie described in Chapter 28? What do Penryn and Raffe do upon entering?
8. Where does Penryn first encounter the Politician in Chapter 30? How is this character described?
9. What angel does Raffe watch in Chapter 29? What does he ask Penryn do to?
10. How are the hybrid creatures in the glass tubes described in Chapter 36?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the narrative point of view from which Angelfall is related. Is the story told from first, second, or third person perspective? Is the story related in the present or past tense? What effect does this narrative style have on you as a reader?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the archangel Gabriel in the novel. What is Gabriel’s role in the Biblical depictions of him? How do these depictions compare with Gabriel’s role in Angelfall? How does Gabriel’s death set in motion the events that dominate the novel?
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