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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 does Citra feel toward Rowan when she wakes up after the exam?

2. Where does Scythe Goddard make High Blade Xenocrates go?

3. What reason does Scythe Volta give for aligning with Scythe Goddard?

4. What martial art do Rowan and Citra compete in?

5. What does Scythe Goddard challenge and want changed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scythe Goddard decide Rowan must do for the first time in Part 4, Chapter 35?

2. What does Scythe Curie do when Citra questions her in public?

3. What does Scythe Curie plan to do in 100 years?

4. What does Rowan do for the Tonists in the cloister?

5. Why did Scythe Curie choose to train Citra?

6. Who does Gerald Van Der Gans turn out to be?

7. What does Citra do after the first time she sees Scythe Curie glean someone?

8. How does Scythe Goddard compare his role to the Thunderhead's role?

9. What is Rowan instructed to do with Esme?

10. What did Scythe Goddard plan to do with the two apprentices after Scythe Faraday's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do love and loss transform between the mortal days and the post-mortal age, and what does eternity have to do with it?

Essay Topic 2

Do the apprentices believe the reason High Blade Xenocrates gives for Scythe Faraday's death? Does self-gleaning seem like something he would do?

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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