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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 Ortega intend no matter what?
2. How does Harry push back the demons?
3. What standoff occurs when Shiro arrives?
4. What does Harry threaten to blow up?
5. Who is with the Shroud as Harry finds it?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Anna trick Harry and escape from Father Forthill's?
2. What is Harry's reaction to the sample of the Shroud he picks up on the way to the meeting about the duel?
3. How does Harry reveal who Cassius is masquerading as, and how does Harry know to do so?
4. What does Shiro reveal to Harry?
5. Describe the fight between the demons and Harry and Anna.
6. What question does Susan refuse to answer when asked by Harry and what appears on her body?
7. What alternative to the duel does Ortega offer Harry and what is Harry's response?
8. What happens when Harry and Susan jump out the car driven by Martin and what do they do?
9. How does Harry restrain Susan?
10. Who does Harry find with the Shroud when he tracks it to a small room in the hotel, and what does he overhear her saying to Marcone?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Death Masks.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Death Masks. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Death Masks. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 2
Harry Dresden is in some ways a larger-than-life hero. Despite incredible odds, he usually comes out on top, in Death Masks and in the others in the series. Discuss the following:
1. Does having a larger-than-life hero make that person less of a hero? In other words, which is more admirable--a hero who ultimately always "lands on his feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't succeed?
2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.
3. Choose one other character besides Harry who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person.
4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of Death Masks, there is a great deal of new magical terms and familiar words with new meanings. Discuss the following:
1. Find five terms that are a part of the world of Death Masks that are a part of the language but mean something different. Define the words as used in Death Masks and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.
2. How does the language of Death Masks from that of real world Chicago? Are there words you did not know in Death Masks? What? How do you learn their meanings? What does it mean to grasp a the meaning of a word through its context? Can you do that in Death Masks? Give an example of several words whose definition are made clear through the context of how the word is used.
3. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of Death Masks through its vocabulary. Did you have to look up any words?
4. Were there any words you never really understood from Death Masks? Which ones? Why?
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