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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. Where does Mortis take Zane at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. Which piece of Death's jewelry can translate languages?

3. What is Satan constantly advertising?

4. What does Molly offer Zane for saving her?

5. Who does Zane's neighbor think Death is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What role did the magician have in Zane becoming Death?

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

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

6. What does Fate say are Zane's duties as Death?

7. Why does the Magician say he is pleased to be spending time in Purgatory?

8. What does the Nurse explain about the boy?

9. What does Zane find out about time in this chapter?

10. How does Mars defend war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Anthony's parallel world different to our own Earth? How does Anthony develop characters that fit in with this world? How does Anthony develop a believable parallel world?

Essay Topic 2

How has Anthony tried to keep his representations accurate? How can fantasy writers communicate realist representations while still making a novel entertaining and imaginative?

Essay Topic 3

The author wrote ON A PALE HORSE in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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