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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 is the name of Rachel's home planet?

2. Through whose eyes does Raul witness a moment of the Holocaust?

3. Who knocks Nemes off the cliff?

4. What does Raul awake in after he and Aenea interrupt mass?

5. What does Raul discover he can share as he writes down all the events?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is freecasting?

2. Whom is the Shrike after in Chapter 19?

3. Where do Aenea, DeSoya and Raul find themselves transported in Chapter 30?

4. What does the Pope intend to do to Aenea once she is captured?

5. What happens on the Yggdrasill?

6. What happens in Tai'an, the City of Peace?

7. Describe Aenea's heritage.

8. Describe the talks Aenea holds with a growing group of disciples.

9. Describe Aenea's communion with her disciples.

10. Why does Raul return to Pacem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain and discuss how the community of Lock Childe Lamonde demonstrated a resistance to converting to Catholicism.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and describe how Aenea's final actions reflect her desire to live her final moments fully.

Essay Topic 3

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

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