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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. As the story opens, what are the angel and the serpent discussing?

2. Why does Mary Hodges like orders?

3. Other than Adam's gang, what is the name of the village's only other gang?

4. What does Crowley drive?

5. Where does Adam pass on his walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Them are talking in the quarry, what does Brian wonder about UFOs?

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

3. What is wrong with the Archbishop's theories of when the world was actually created?

4. What are two unique things about the Another?

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

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

7. What is Newton Pulsifer's job in the Witchfinder Army?

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

9. What does Crowley realize about that fateful day at the hospital eleven years earlier?

10. How does Anathema meet Crowley and Arizaphale?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the quarry, Adam is determined to end the world. At the air base, however, Adam does not go through with Armageddon.

a. Describe Adam's reasoning for bringing about Armageddon.

b. Describe Adam's reasoning for not bringing about Armageddon.

c. What changes Adam's mind?

Essay Topic 2

Adam and the Them spend time in the quarry discussing Greasy Johnson and the Johnsonites before they go to Tadfield Air Base. Adam realizes that life without Greasy would be vastly different from the life they now know.

a. Describe how, in Adam's opinion, life would be different without Greasy. What implications would Greasy's absence have for Adam's gang?

b. How does that conversation parallel to the bigger picture of the impending Armageddon?

Essay Topic 3

The mix-up at the hospital is finally uncovered, and Arizaphale and Crowley realize they "lost" the Antichrist.

a. When and how did Arizaphale and Crowley discover this mistake?

b. What kept them from discovering it sooner?

c. What was the lesson or theme intended by this issue in the book?

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