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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. How does Raffe describe his religious beliefs in Chapter 33?
2. Which of Paige’s friends does Penryn describe in Chapter 31 as having been “born with stumpy arms and tiny, malformed hands”?
3. Who does the albino angel say wants the position of messenger “so badly he's practically combing our feathers with his own hands to get the supermajority support he needs” in Chapter 31?
4. What does Raffe tell Penryn after kissing her in Chapter 28?
5. Penryn says in Chapter 33 that her mother’s belief in the devil is what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information does Raffe relate to Penryn of the Watchers and the Nephilim in Chapter 25?
2. How is the setting of the interior of the aerie described in Chapter 28? What do Penryn and Raffe do upon entering?
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. Where does Raffe leave Penryn in Chapter 21? What does Penryn do?
6. Describe the chaos at the camp in Chapter 21. Where do Penryn and Raffe go?
7. Who attacks Penryn in Chapter 38? How does Penryn react?
8. What does Paige do to the angel that attacks Penryn in Chapter 39?
9. How is Penryn saved from the gang of thugs that surrounds her and the Tweedle brother in Chapter 35?
10. Where does Penryn first encounter the Politician in Chapter 30? How is this character described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the characters of Tweedledee and Tweedledum in the novel as well as the author’s use of literary allusion in Angelfall. From what prior literary work do the names Tweedledee and Tweedledum come? What other characters in the story have names that are literary allusions? What purpose do these allusions serve?
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 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?
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