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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the guild celebrate Severian becoming a journeyman torturer?
(a) With a feast.
(b) They do not celebrate.
(c) With an elaborate graduation ceremony.
(d) By giving him many gifts, including gold.

2. What kinds of weapons are carried by the person or people who attack the men in the graveyard?
(a) Axes.
(b) Guns.
(c) Spears.
(d) Crossbows.

3. Severian believes that going over the process of the execution with Agilus will help give him what?
(a) Peace.
(b) A chance to escape.
(c) An opportunity to prepare Agia.
(d) More fear and anguish.

4. Who attacks the men in the graveyard?
(a) A woman.
(b) Guards.
(c) A mysterious vagabond.
(d) The boys.

5. What will happen to a person who is pricked by an avern?
(a) They will turn to stone.
(b) They will die.
(c) They will become blind and deaf.
(d) They will go insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the boys intend to go when they leave the graveyard?

2. Where do the boys hide when they hear a commotion?

3. What are the men in the graveyard doing when Severian sees them?

4. What does Master Gurloes ask Severian when he is summoned to the master's office?

5. What does Severian steal from the kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Severian do for Thecla that breaks a rule of the guild?

2. What does Severian realize about the ferryman who carries him and Agia across the river to get the avern?

3. What does Thecla hope the Autarch will do?

4. Why does Severian hide the coin he receives from Vodalus?

5. Why isn't the guild able to pass judgement on the people who are sent there?

6. How is Severian saved from drowning in the river as he and the other apprentices return home from the graveyard?

7. Why does the guild teach torturer apprentices to tend wounds?

8. How does the machine that Thecla is strapped to make a person feel?

9. What do Severian and the other apprentices see when they go to the graveyard?

10. Why does Master Gurloes ask Severian if he wants to be a torturer?

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