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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. What should a cultural audit ensure?

2. How do Rowan's classmates treat him after Kohl's gleaning?

3. What is Scythe Faraday's actual age?

4. Who runs away from the plane?

5. How many Scythe Commandments are there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is at the beginning of each Chapter in Part 1?

2. By law, what documents must be kept?

3. Why is the sixth commandment so important?

4. Are scythes allowed to reproduce?

5. How is the passing of time recorded once numerical years are obsolete?

6. Why does Tyger splat?

7. What are the first two Scythe Commandments about killing?

8. What does Citra's mother beg of Scythe Faraday?

9. Are scythes allowed to kill other scythes?

10. What do most scythes take their names from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the curate offer to help Rowan after the bloodshed? What does it say about Rowan's character that he does not hide?

Essay Topic 2

In the end, Scythe Volta questions his life and gladly accepts death. What makes him doubt his purpose? How does this mirror H.S. Curie's earlier journals?

Essay Topic 3

Why might a scythe become jaded? Does it seem like they have everything or nothing? Would theirs be a lonely life?

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