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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 Arizaphale collect?

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

3. As the angel and serpent look off into the distance as their conversation in Eden is ending, what do they see?

4. What does Crowley drive?

5. After leaving the nunnery, what does Mary Hodges open?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are two unique things about the Another?

4. Name two of the five business mantras that Mary Hodges taught in her training program.

5. What are the instructions given to Crawley?

6. How does Anathema meet Crowley and Arizaphale?

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

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

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

10. Why does the location of the forbidden tree puzzle Crawley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

All of the events which end up thwarting the coming Armageddon take place at the air base take place on a Saturday night.

a. What happens on Sunday morning?

b. Describe the reactions of the previous night's events for the following characters: Adam, the Them, Shadwell, and Anathema.

c. How will the thwarted Armageddon impact the four characters' remaining days? Explain your answers.

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