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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 21, Penryn says, “Watching the soldiers leave is like watching the basement door close, shutting out the only light in the house and leaving me alone in the monster-filled darkness.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Quarto.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Motif.

2. In Chapter 26, Penryn describes the “end of the world when a box of crackers is worth more than” what?
(a) "A Mercedes."
(b) "A mansion."
(c) "A BMW."
(d) "A Cadillac."

3. What color are Laylah’s eyes described as in Chapter 32?
(a) Midnight blue.
(b) Emerald green.
(c) Cornflower flue.
(d) Scarlet red.

4. Of whom does Penryn say in Chapter 32 that if he had seen the vision of the angels flying in the circular corridor “with the sun streaming down from the glass dome, he'd have fallen to his knees and painted 'til he was blind”?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Michelangelo.

5. What are the crowds by the gates doing as women are admitted or turned away by the entrance guards in Chapter 27?
(a) Taking photographs.
(b) Cat-calling to the women.
(c) Booing and hissing.
(d) Placing bets on who’s let in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does one of the men threaten to attack Penryn and the Tweedle brother with before Penryn’s mom arrives and intervenes in Chapter 35?

2. What objects, which make Penryn think of her mother, are found near the girls hanging from the tree in Chapter 24?

3. Penryn says in Chapter 33 that her mother’s belief in the devil is what?

4. Which of Paige’s friends does Penryn describe in Chapter 31 as having “wobbled when he walked and had to contort his face painfully to form coherent words which often let out an embarrassing amount of drool”?

5. When Raffe leaves for his surgery in Chapter 33, he tells Penryn that if he’s not back by dawn to find whom to help her get out of the aerie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Penryn learn as she listens to Raffe and Josiah in Chapter 31?

2. How is Penryn saved from the gang of thugs that surrounds her and the Tweedle brother in Chapter 35?

3. Where does Penryn encounter Paige in Chapter 37? How is Paige described?

4. Where does the Tweedle brother take Penryn in Chapter 34?

5. Where does Raffe leave Penryn in Chapter 21? What does Penryn do?

6. What gory scene do Raffe and Penryn encounter in Chapter 24? How does Penryn react?

7. Describe the chaos at the camp in Chapter 21. Where do Penryn and Raffe go?

8. How does Raffe save Penryn in Chapter 23? What does Penryn do to help?

9. How is the setting of the financial district described in Chapter 27?

10. Why does Raffe solicit Josiah’s help in Chapter 31? How does Josiah respond?

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