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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. In what part of the school is the young dying boy?

2. How does Zane's first client die?

3. What is the television news about?

4. What pact does Satan have with God?

5. Where is Zane's next appointment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why will the computer send the baby to Purgatory?

2. Why can even babies have souls balanced towards evil?

3. How does Mars defend war?

4. In what way does Zane's first encounter with Death show the positive sides of his job?

5. Why does Zane end up regretting his deal with the shopkeeper?

6. Why is Zane pleased to see the social services outside the nursing home?

7. How does Death's bracelet help Zane?

8. What realization does Zane come to by the end of the chapter?

9. Where does Zane have to go for his first appointment in Chapter 4?

10. What does Zane confess to Luna in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Zane's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Zane hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Zane ideas about life?

3. How has Zane's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Examine earth from Anthony's idea that everyone is cloned and has a collective conscience.

1. How would it affect people's relationships with each other?

2. How would it benefit the government?

3. Who do you think the government would choose to clone and why?

Essay Topic 3

How is Anthony's parallel world different to our own Earth? How does Anthony develop characters that fit in with this world? How does Anthony develop a believable parallel world?

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