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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. Who awakens Raul to inform him they just arrived on a drop ship in Chapter 10?

2. How many years have elapsed since the events from the third book "The Rise of Endymion"?

3. Who is predicted to be the first to leave Old Earth and the Taliesin West alone?

4. According to Albedo's claim, who is responsible for placing the non-Christians into stasis?

5. Who came to the Renaissance Vector?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Task Force GIDEON?

2. Describe what Raul calculates in Chapter 16.

3. What sends Raul into free fall again in Chapter 12?

4. Describe Captain DeSoya.

5. Who is Rachel Weintraub?

6. Why is Raul assigned a guard to watch over him when he falls ill?

7. Describe the beginning of the Pax's raids in Chapter 9.

8. Who is Raul?

9. What is Cor Unum in charge of?

10. Describe how Simmons gives unusual attention to the environment of the mountains at the Temple Hanging in the Air.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain and discuss how Aenea's role in "The Rise of Endymion" runs parallel to God.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and describe the conflict in Raul's feeling of failure when he could not save Aenea, although she had it planned that way from the beginning.

Essay Topic 3

Describe how Aenea's remembering the future is different from her seeing it or predicting it.

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