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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 do the Chitachatuk travel?

2. Who/what does de Soya hope was not the church's creature?

3. Who lays earwig eggs in water to attack anyone who swims upstream?

4. In what language is the interrogation of de Soya performed?

5. Who finds evidence of thruster bursts that signal the release of a dropship to the planet's surface?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Aenea's thoughts on the Shrike in Chapter 30?

2. Discuss the deaths that Nemes causes in Chapter 47.

3. Discuss the exploration of de Soya and his crew in Chapter 32.

4. Discuss the trap Nemes sets for Aenea.

5. What happens when Aenea transports through the portal into the Sol Draconi System?

6. What happens when Aenea leaves Sol Draconi Septem?

7. What is learned when de Soya wakes early from his resurrection in Chapter 53?

8. What happens when de Soya tours the Vatican?

9. What does the Pope see in his vision?

10. What does Aenea tell her friends in Chapter 50?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The church plays a key role in the novel. What role does the church have in the story? What does the church stand for? Give three examples as to what is important to the church in the story.

Essay Topic 2

What is the novel's genre? Why does the book fall into this genre? Give at least three details to justify your response.

Essay Topic 3

Resurrection takes place several times in the novel. What is the role of resurrection in the novel? What is resurrection? Discuss the process involved in resurrection and who has been resurrected in the novel.

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