Chapter 13:

1.What area have the three travellers reached? (140)

2. Who or what is most important right now? Why is this the case? (142)

3. What had happened to Sally and Katherine? (144)

4. David explains to Petra why people hurt other people. Quote the lines. (145)

5. What does Petra tell David about Sealand? (146)

6. What happens to David at the end of the chapter? (149)

Chapter 14:

1. Explain the difference between the external Rosalind and the "real" one. (150)

2. Who has captured the group? (151)

3. Where do the Fringe people think the Devil dwells? (153)

4. After listening to the Fringes man, David observes that all people think they know God's truth. What does the man mean by saying "life is change"? (154)

5. What does the Fringes man mean by "they try to strangle the life out of Life"? (155)

6. Who are the New People? (156)

7. Why do the Sealanders believe they are superior to the Old People? (157)

8. How does the spider-man introduce himself to David? (162)

9. What does the spider-man intend to do with Rosalind? (165)

Chapter 15:

1. Why did David say Sophie's clothes were "almost indecent"? (166)

2. What is the relationship between Gordon and Sophie? (168)

3. Describe Sophie's cave. (169-170)

4. Who is the last of the original group still communicating with the refugees? (171)

5. What two groups are soon to converge on the Fringes area where David and friends are? (173)

6 What did Sophie mean when she says to David, "This is the Fringes"? (173)

7 How did Sophie free the girls? (175)

Chapter 16.

1. Why did Sophie become angry with Rosalind? (177)

2. Who comforted Sophie? (178)

3. Where is Michael? (178)

4. Where is Rachel? (179)

5. What is a "behind think"? (180)

6. Who does Petra ask Michael is pursuing David and Petra? (181)

7. Quote the lines that express David's conflicted feelings about his father. (182)

8. What does the Sealand woman say about the future of Waknuk and others like it? (182)

9. What idea does she express that repeats the ones of the Fringes man in chapter 14? (182)

10. For whom was the spider-man looking? For what reason? (186)

11. How were you to escape the power of the strands coming form the ship? (189)

Note: The Sealanders' arrival and rescue of David and company is an example of a "deus ex rnachina" ending, or literally, "god out of a machine". This theatrical device, often used in Greek tragedy, involved a god appearing to solve the problems of the main characters. The god arrives from the sky and externally solves the problems of the play. Often the god takes the protagonist into his machine and the two return to the heavens together. The protagonist is then granted immortality.

Chapter 17:

1 . How did the Sealand lady get rid of the deadly filaments? (191)

2. Describe the Sealand woman. (192)

3 . What "holy" imagery is associated with the Sealand woman on page 193?

4. What bad news does the Sealand woman give? (194)

5. How many of the fighters are alive? (195)

6. The Sealand woman speaks about the Fringes people being condemned to a life of "squalor and misery", with "no future for them". The reader then learns that the Sealanders consider themselves to be the current "lords of life". What does she say will eventually happen even to them? (195-196)

7. What do Michael and Rachel decide to do? (197-198)

8. Give a few details about the city in Sealand the travellers reach. (199)

9. What is the "buzzing" the travellers hear as they approach the city? (199)

10. Would you describe the ending of this book as hopeful, hopeless or something in between? Explain your answer.

11 Explain briefly why John Wyndham chose to title this novel The Chyrsalids. See the note below.Note: "The word chrvsaild is a biological term which means the state into which the larva of most insects pass before becoming a perfect insect. In this state the larva, wrapped in a hard sheath or case, takes no food and is inactive. In general usage the word can mean a sheltered state or stage of being or growth. Thus, as with all good titles, the reader of The Chrysalids is left to extend this definition so as to apply it in a suitable way to the novel itself " (W.J. Holt, from the 1965 House of Grant edition)