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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. Why does Vane welcome the cold?

2. How does the Army enter the city?

3. What keeps expanding?

4. Where does Vane carry Lona's body?

5. From what book does Raven read?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lona.

2. What does Lilith do in the desert and what does she demand?

3. What does Raven tell Vane back at Vane's house?

4. Describe Vane's trek to buy Lililth's hand.

5. About what does Raven read from the mutilated book?

6. What does Vane think about after he has been "pushed" back into his own world?

7. What does Mara do with Lilith?

8. Describe the garret and mirror.

9. What does the Princess tell Vane after Vane bathes and eats?

10. What is Vane contemplating about creation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The idea of identity appears throughout Lilith. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of identity throughout LILITH. Whose identities change? Whose stay the same? Is one's identity set or does it change?

2. Do you think the word "identity" is the same as the concept of "true self"? Explain your response with examples from the text.

3. Does Mr. Vane's true self change or does his perception of who he is change? Explore this question fully with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The concept of wisdom is woven throughout LILITH. Mr. Vane, who is a well-read and educated man acts foolishly numerous times in the other world that he reaches through the mirror. Discuss the following:

1. Define the concept of wisdom. Use both an acceptable source and then your own ideas of what you believe wisdom is.

2. Trace and analyze how Vane comes to find wisdom.

3. How important do you think being wise is? How important is it to you that you be wise? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly trace and analyze the theme of "universal salvation" as it occurs in LILITH. What does this term mean in context of Christianity? How is it expressed in Lilith? Is this concept part of the fundamental precepts of most Christian sects? Why or why not?

2. Thoroughly trace and analyze the theme of greed as it occurs in LILITH. What characters are greedy? Why? Is Vane greedy when he reaches out to grasp the beautiful creature he sees (Chapter 7, p. 47). Who is able to let go of greed? How do they do so? Does anyone refuse to transform his/her greed? Who? Why?

3. Thoroughly trace and analyze the juxtaposing of beauty with evil. How are the two concepts related? What characters are beautiful? Is beauty only physical? What characters are beautiful on the outside but evil on the inside? Is the internal evil transformed to match the external beauty? With whom? How?

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