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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. How much of a person’s body do the Grandslayers rule must remain intact for that person to remain a scythe?

2. What is Scythe Rand’s original name?

3. What color tie does Scythe Constantine wear at the theater?

4. Who is the first person to greet Greyson at the Tonist monastery?

5. What weapon does Purity brandish as she pursues Slayd into the theater?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is present in the room to which Greyson is led when he arrives at the Tonist monastery?

2. What are the reasons guessed at for Curie sealing Anastasia and Rowan into the Vault of Relics and Futures?

3. What reasons does the Thunderhead give for disliking having its “backbrain” searched?

4. What reason does Mendoza give for darkness in Greyson’s bedroom?

5. What clues do Scythes Rand and Goddard leave to affirm what they have done to Tyger?

6. What does the Thunderhead cite as primary examples of “circumstances beyond [its] control” (323)?

7. What problems does Rowan identify in his attempt to escape Endura?

8. What distinction is noted between previous conclaves’ security and that of the conclave of January 7, Year of the Raptor?

9. How does the Thunderhead treat former world capitals, and why?

10. How does Xenocrates die? What occasions the death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tyger remarks that the language of Texas in the novel is “like listening to Shakespeare” (60). Follow the simile and its implications: what does it mean for Texan speech to be like Shakespearean, what does it suggest about Texas in the novel, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the injuries sustained by people in the attack on Scythes Curie and Anastasia in the theater—and from which they are revived and healed. What effects would sustaining such injuries, with awareness of them and of recovery from them, likely have on those who suffer them? What in the text suggests those effects? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Scythe Anastasia remarks that many scythes “were so focused on the act of killing, they couldn’t comprehend what went into the act of dying” (35). What is meant by the statement? What in the text and in experience suggests it? How does it do so?

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