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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 is the name of the fifteen-year-old boy?

2. What it is the name of the woman who enters Zane's apartment?

3. Where is Zane's next appointment?

4. What has the woman swallowed in order to kill herself?

5. Where has Zane's mail been sent from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Luna say is the difference between white and black magic?

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

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

5. What mistakes does Zane realize he is making in Chapter 3?

6. How does Zane kill Death?

7. Why does the Old Man remind Zane of his mother?

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

9. What role did the magician have in Zane becoming Death?

10. In what way does Fate say Death was careless?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the characters in the book and discuss how he or she would cope in one of the following scenarios.

1. Satan consigns Luna to hell.

2. God interferes in Satan's business.

3. Zane loses his job as Death.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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