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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 Death's horse?

2. What does Zane use as a weapon to protect himself against the griffins?

3. What is the name of the country Zane travels to in this chapter?

4. What does Mars say war brings glory to?

5. How does someone become Death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zane get together a performance for the old man?

2. Why does Zane end up regretting his deal with the shopkeeper?

3. What does Zane discover about his powers in Chapter 4?

4. In what way is Zane's television in his new house different to normal televisions?

5. What does Luna confess to Zane in Chapter 5?

6. How does Mars defend war?

7. In what way does the theme of death hang over the first chapter?

8. Why does the Old Man remind Zane of his mother?

9. How does Zane kill Death?

10. What does the Nurse explain about the boy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the characters in the book and discuss how he or she would cope in one of the following scenarios.

1. Satan consigns Luna to hell.

2. God interferes in Satan's business.

3. Zane loses his job as Death.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

How does Anthony represent black magic in the novel? How accurate is Anthony's representation of black magic? How does he use the story and character to create his representation?

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