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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. Whose interference angers Zane in this chapter?

2. Whose ghost does Zane see in Chapter 1?

3. What is Zane horrified to discover about the baby?

4. What is the name of the magician's daughter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what way does Zane show he could be perfect in his role as Death?

4. How does Zane get together a performance for the old man?

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

6. In what way is Zane's television in his new house different to normal televisions?

7. Why does Zane kill everyone at the hospital?

8. How does Mars defend war?

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

10. What does Luna confess to Zane 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 the construction of Anthony's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in Anthony's argument?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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