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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 does Brother Ferguson refuse?

2. What does Scythe Faraday mistake a seduction for?

3. What does Rowan feel his training is turning him into?

4. What does Rowan say Scythe Goddard does not deserve?

5. When does Citra have a conversation with the Thunderhead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Scythe Faraday fake his death?

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

3. What happens to the people Rowan practices on?

4. How does Rowan feel about his growing abilities?

5. What is surrounding Scythe Curie's home?

6. What is the punishment for Scythes Curie and Faraday's commandment breaking?

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

8. What does Rowan think of Scythe Volta?

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

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

What do Scythes Curie and Faraday mean when they tell Citra that things are more than they seem or can be understood?

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

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

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