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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 happens to Raul in Chapter 10?

2. To whom does the Taliesin West look for leadership when their old cybrid dies?

3. DeSoya rightly suspects that ____________ is a spy.

4. What is the name of the nearby galaxy led by the alien force named?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Corporal Bassin Kee tortured in Chapter 3?

2. What happens to Raul in Lock Childe Lamonde?

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

4. Why is Lenar Hoyt significant?

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

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

7. Describe Captain DeSoya.

8. Who is Rachel Weintraub?

9. Describe what Raul calculates in Chapter 16.

10. What is Cor Unum in charge of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain and discuss the significance and importance of Aenea's duality of teaching. What does her teaching suggest about her role in the text?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and describe the religious sentiment in "The Rise of Endymion" and how it does not demonstrate a typical religious loyalty.

Essay Topic 3

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

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