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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. Where does the drop ship take its travelers in Chapter 4?

2. What does Simmons spend a great deal of time describing in Chapter 16?

3. For how many years is the person whom Mustafa and Farrell torture incarcerated?

4. Where is DeSoya's new outpost located?

5. What is the name of the person who diagnosis Raul's illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Raul and Aenea's dream conversations in Chapter 8.

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

3. What is Cor Unum in charge of?

4. Describe Captain DeSoya.

5. Whom does Kenso Isosaki want destroyed and why?

6. What is ironic about Raul's affliction?

7. Describe the Core's loyalty to the Church.

8. What happens to Raul at the Temple Hanging in the Air?

9. What is the Shrike?

10. What is Task Force GIDEON?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the details which Simmons includes/does not include when describing the environment of the worlds he creates in "The Rise of Endymion."

Essay Topic 2

Explain and discuss the significance in the reveal that A. Bettik was the Observer for the Lions, Tigers, and Bears.

Essay Topic 3

Explain and analyze what Aenea's suggestion towards humanity is when she says that "if they hide from humanity, they are squandering all they have learned previously."

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