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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 Cian say that Lilith will do if she catches Larkin?

2. When Larkin first wakes up, what does he ask?

3. What does Larkin notice about the fire behind the wizard in Lilith's cave?

4. What does the old man tell the children they now know when he is talking to them in the prologue?

5. What does Hoyt say about the boy that Lilith calls her son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in chapter two when Hoyt wakes up Cian.

2. What does Larkin tell Blair when she tells him that he doesn't know her?

3. What does Larkin ask Blair for in the end of Chapter 8?

4. Describe the scene when Larkin is leaving to scout out Lilith's camp.

5. What do Blair and Hoyt do when they find the van that the vampires had to abandon outside Cian's castle?

6. What does Blair tell Larkin about the creature that attacked them before the vampires came out?

7. What does Larkin do before leaving the cave?

8. Describe the dawn after the first battle as the old men tells it in the prologue.

9. What does the old man explain about worlds in the prologue.

10. What do Glenna and Hoyt say they are going to work on?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Which characters seemed to transition easier to the other worlds? Was it easier for Larkin and Moira to go to Ireland or the others to go to Geall? Explain.

2) If you had to choose between bringing a monster to your own world to battle, such as Moira did, or going to a strange land to fight, which would you chose and why?

3) How easy would it be for you to believe in monsters that you currently thought were fiction?

Essay Topic 2

1) What was the significance of the old man telling the story?

2) Speculate on who the old man is.

3) Do you believe the old man is in what is considered the real world or another of the mythical worlds? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

1) Do you feel that survival is a theme of the story? Why or why not?

2) What did you glean from the message that was written in the sky at the end of the story? What was its purpose?

3) What would you call the theme of the story and why?

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