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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. Madrone tries a risky method of healing that involves ______ the disease and then curing it inside yourself.

2. The story is told from the perspective of three members of the _______ Dragon House.

3. _______ returns to the hills where he is a leader among the rebels and at the end of chapter four splits from the others.

4. The Monsters ask Littlejohn and Bird to participate in a ______ ritual, and then to stay and recover from their travels.

5. Lily Fong is a member of the ______ council and believes that the disease currently killing people is a biological weapon.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the residents of Toxic territory refer to themselves as monsters?

2. What religious beliefs and or cultural practices are considered to be okay to practice in the South?

3. What work have Holybear, Sage, and Nita been doing for the Toxics council?

4. What begins to return to Bird as he continues to recover memories in jail?

5. What is the name of the new prisoner that is brought into the cell when Littlejohn and Bird are there and what does Bird do to him?

6. What are the names given to the two different branches of the governmental structures of Southern California?

7. How is the government of the city run according to the book?

8. Maya is often visited by several spirits of the dead, who she communes with on a regular basis. Who are her two most frequent visitors?

9. When Bird returns to the city, he and Madrone re-kindle a relationship. What is the nature of their relationship?

10. To what group or division does Madrone represent when she goes to the Council?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Maya often speaks to the dead, especially when she has just awakened at dawn. If you had the opportunity to speak with the dead, who would you speak with? What would you say or ask?

Essay Topic 2

Why did the author choose to use bees as the animals of initiation for Madrone? What symbolic power do they carry? If Madrone now has a hive mind - what has she lost?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, the City is referred to as a Utopian society. Define Utopia and then discuss what the possible downsides of a Utopian society might be.

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