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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. Which of Paige’s friends is described as a “quadriplegic who needed a pump to keep him breathing” in Chapter 31?
2. When Penryn notices that the soldiers have their rifles aimed at about the height of their waists, she questions whether what animal might have killed the other soldiers in Chapter 21?
3. What are the crowds by the gates doing as women are admitted or turned away by the entrance guards in Chapter 27?
4. 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”?
5. What happened to the angels stationed on Earth that married human women and had hybrid children, according to Raffe in Chapter 25?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the reunion of Penryn’s family described in Chapter 40?
2. What information does Penryn learn as she listens to Raffe and Josiah in Chapter 31?
3. What is Penryn’s reaction to the information she’s learned through Josiah and Raffe’s conversation in Chapter 32?
4. How is the setting of the forest described as Penryn travels through it in Chapter 22?
5. What angel does Raffe watch in Chapter 29? What does he ask Penryn do to?
6. Where does Raffe leave Penryn in Chapter 21? What does Penryn do?
7. How does Raffe save Penryn in Chapter 23? What does Penryn do to help?
8. How is Penryn saved from the gang of thugs that surrounds her and the Tweedle brother in Chapter 35?
9. How does Penryn communicate with the Tweedle brother in Chapter 34? What does she learn from him?
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
Discuss the themes of hope and heroism in Angelfall. How are these themes developed through the characters of Penryn, Raffe, and Obadiah West? What symbolism in the novel relates to these themes? What imagery relates to these themes?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the character of Penryn Young as the protagonist in Angelfall. How old is Penryn when the novel begins? What is Penryn’s objective when she leaves her house with her family? How does that objective change in the first chapters of the narrative? How does Penryn evolve as a character throughout the novel?
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