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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. Where does Adam pass on his walk?

2. What are God's mysterious ways likened to?

3. How do Arizaphale and Crowley think of themselves in relation to the Antichrist?

4. When the four friends in Adam's gang decide to have their own Neighborhood Witch Watch, who is promised the role of Head Torturer?

5. What are Arizaphale and Crowley waiting for at the birthday party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the Chattering Order of Saint Beryl get its name?

2. When people first meet Arizaphale, what are the three things they immediately think about him?

3. Why do most witchcraft books say that witches work naked?

4. What is unique about Sable's best-selling book?

5. What troubles Crowley about Warlock?

6. How does Anathema meet Crowley and Arizaphale?

7. What does Anathema find unique about Adam?

8. Why were Arizaphale and Crowley fired upon when they reached Tadfield Manor?

9. How do the babies get mixed up based on the Sister's act?

10. Why does Adam surprise his parents and go to bed early the night following his meeting with Anathema?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The readers are introduced to Adam and his friends when they are eleven. Adam is clearly the leader of the pack.

a. What personality characteristics does Adam display that make him the natural leader of the Them?

b. How does his changing personality affect Adam's leadership and the reaction of his friends to his ideas and game suggestions?

c. Compare and contrast Adam's personality before and after he starts to realize he is the Antichrist.

Essay Topic 2

Crawley changes his name at the beginning of the story, because he feels his original name does not reflect his true character. Please explore the theme of a name as an identity throughout Good Omens. Do the names assigned to characters seem appropriate to their personalities or actions? Do all characters accept their name? For those who change their name, what is their motivation to do so?

Essay Topic 3

Tadfield Manor is a place that affects the story in a number of ways. Please describe the purpose, or symbolic nature, of Tadfield Manor in the story through comparing and contrasting Tadfield Manor in its original form with the form it has become eleven years later. How is it the same? How is it different?

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