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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 Vane first seem to sleep and then awaken?
2. What does Eve do when Luva's mother refuses her?
3. What does Raven summon as the moon rises?
4. Who does Vane think will ascend the throne?
5. What swirls above the mountain where the company is heading?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Raven tell Vane back at Vane's house?
2. What happens to the baby that the "fugitive mother" was carrying?
3. Describe the Fugitive Mother, who is the one who pushes for an attack on the city.
4. Describe the Princess's encounter with Lona.
5. What does the Princess tell Vane after Vane bathes and eats?
6. Describe the garret and mirror.
7. What does Lilith do in the desert and what does she demand?
8. What does Adam explain about sleep?
9. About what does Raven read from the mutilated book?
10. What does Mara do with Lilith?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
She calls the Little Ones "careless little Lovers" who do not know their own names. When Vane wonders about his own true name, she declares that this is unimportant. In many cultures, names are considered sacred and one who knows someone else's "true" name has power over that person. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly trace and analyze the concept of names in Lilith. Does a person have more than one name? Why or why not? How is a true name given? Why use more than one name?
2. How does Vane's relationship change to others as he learns their names? (For example, when he figures out that Raven is actually Adam from the creation story in Genesis.)
3. Do you think Lilith's name changes as she finally agrees to sleep (true death)? Why or why not.
4. Why do you think the Little Ones do not know their own names? Why does Lona know her name? What do you think will change about the Little Ones as they (if they) learn their names?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss LILITH based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Lilith is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.
3. Do you think the fact that LILITH is written in the 19th century changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
The Shadow is two-dimensional, opaque , absorbing its own shadow, and invariably accompanied by an enormous white female leopard. Discuss the following:
1. Trace and analyze the appearance of the character "The Shadow." Is he/she/it "real"? Why do you think is is usually accompanied by the white female leopard? Do you think this implies that the Shadow is male energy?
2. There is a concept that everyone has a "shadow" side. Trace and analyze this concept as it occurs in LILITH. Does every in the book seem to have a shadow side? If their shadow side seems predominant (such as Lilith or the Giants) do they have a "light" side? Do the Little Ones have a shadow side? What about Adam? Eve? Are the Giants the shadow side of something/someone else? Who?
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