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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 does Aenea carry within her as a result of being the offspring of a human and a Core cybrid?

2. What is the Cantos?

3. What river does Raul paddle down in Chapter 6 through the Arch of the West?

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

5. How many Core cyborg assassins does the Raphael bring to God's Grove?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Cor Unum in charge of?

3. What does the Shrike do to every one of its victims' bodies?

4. Describe Captain DeSoya.

5. What happens to Isosaki when he discusses the meeting of the Core with Cognani?

6. What is the Shrike?

7. Who is Raul?

8. How is Isosaki's group, Pax Mercantilus, demonstrative of a writing flaw in Simmon's writing?

9. Whom does Kenso Isosaki want destroyed and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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."

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

Discuss why Aenea does not allow Raul to drink her blood as communion. What happens to make her let him drink it toward the end of the text?

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