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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vodalus order Severian to take a mouthful of at the feast?
(a) Avern.
(b) Crocodile meat.
(c) The animal elixir.
(d) Wine.

2. What is taking place in the town where Severian is working as an executioner?
(a) A religious ceremony.
(b) A serious uprising.
(c) The crowning of a new king.
(d) A triple beheading and a festival.

3. What does Dorcas do when she realizes that Severian and Jonas made love?
(a) Slaps Jolenta.
(b) Hopes that Jolenta will conceive a child.
(c) Goes away to cry.
(d) Tries to kill Severian.

4. What does Severian find in the water after being attacked in the cave?
(a) The Claw.
(b) His sword.
(c) A gold coin.
(d) A crocodile.

5. Where do Severian and Jolenta go to make love?
(a) The portal room.
(b) A room in the House of Absolute.
(c) The cave.
(d) The water's edge.

6. How long have some of the families been in the prison in the House of Absolute?
(a) Thirty days.
(b) A year.
(c) Seven generations.
(d) Two generations.

7. What reason does Severian give for understanding if the reader no longer wishes to travel with him at the end of the book?
(a) He wishes all readers to travel with him at once.
(b) His travels are nearly over.
(c) The road is a hard one.
(d) He will die tomorrow.

8. Who slides a letter under the door while Severian and Jonas sit talking?
(a) Vodalus.
(b) Thecla.
(c) The green man.
(d) Dorcas.

9. Where did Severian get the book that he reads to Jonas?
(a) The library in the House of Absolute.
(b) Vodalus.
(c) Thecla's cell.
(d) The master of the guild.

10. What does one of the men who captured Severian and Jonas accidentally kill himself with?
(a) The Claw.
(b) An avern.
(c) Severian's sword.
(d) A crossbow.

11. Who does Severian see in the crowd when Barnach is dragged from his home?
(a) Thecla.
(b) Agia.
(c) Vodalus.
(d) Drotte.

12. While Dorcas and Severian are in the castle, who arrives?
(a) Dr. Talos.
(b) Jonas.
(c) Vodalus.
(d) Hildegrin.

13. Whose men capture Severian and Jonas after Severian confronts Agia?
(a) Vodalus'.
(b) The priestesses'.
(c) The Autarch's.
(d) Dr. Talos'.

14. What does Severian offer to help the green man do?
(a) Get revenge.
(b) Escape.
(c) Fight the people holding him captive.
(d) Return home.

15. Where does Severian find the others after the people at the final play are attacked?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the cave.
(c) In a clearing in the woods.
(d) In prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes mad and attacks people during the Dr. Talos' final play?

2. What does Vodalus make Severian and Jonas swear?

3. What does the green man say has been integrated into his blood?

4. Why can't the green man go home?

5. What does Severian put on Agia's chest to hold her to the ground?

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