View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cormac do in Chapter 63, when he senses Bryce is withholding information?

2. How many siblings does the female mystic have?

3. How much time does Tharion have until he needs to fully submerge in Chapter 70?

4. How many Ophion rebels does Hunt tell Bryce that the Harpy blood-eagled in Chapter 53?

5. At the end of Chapter 43, who does Hunt see running along the cliffs?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 51, what does Hunt learn that the Harpy did by the Angels' Gate?

2. How do Bryce and Hypaxia defeat the demons in Chapter 55?

3. What did Hypaxia do with her mother after she died?

4. How does Bryce get her union to Hunt made official?

5. In Chapter 40, what does Mordoc say he did with a male mer once and learned from him?

6. In Chapter 49, where do Bryce and Hunt go to collect Emile, and why was Emile at that place?

7. Why is Ariadne fighting for the Viper Queen in Chapter 64?

8. Who rescues Bryce and the others when they are being pursued in Chapter 44?

9. When Bryce begins exploring the palace, what does she discover about the Asteri?

10. What happens to Hunt, Ruhn, and Baxian in Chapter 78?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of House of Sky and Breath? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

In media res is the technique of beginning a story with a pivotal point or a situation that is the end to a series of events. Where does Maas begin the story? How does she plunge into the story without an explanation? How does beginning the story in the middle of the action affect the plot and affect readers?

Essay Topic 3

Dialogue tags help identify who is speaking in a written conversation. What would happen if dialogue tags were never used to identify who is speaking in a written conversation? What are some common dialogue tags used to identify speakers in a written conversation? What descriptive dialogue tags has Maas used, especially in Chapter 39? How do those dialogue tags help readers imagine scenes? How do they add another layer of description?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 879 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample