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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. Whose office is Severian taken to after Thecla's death?
(a) Master Gurloes'.
(b) The Autarch's.
(c) His own.
(d) Master Palaemon's.

2. At the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 7, who tells Severian to take the books to the end cell?
(a) Triskele.
(b) Drotte.
(c) Agia.
(d) Vodalus.

3. By what is Severian pulled from the water?
(a) By his waist.
(b) By his hair.
(c) By his arm.
(d) By his leg.

4. What does Severian hear as he executes Agilus?
(a) A strange man yelling.
(b) An eagle's cry.
(c) Agia screaming.
(d) Pure silence.

5. Where do the boys hide when they hear a commotion?
(a) In a tree.
(b) Behind the tombstones.
(c) Inside an empty grave.
(d) Behind thick bushes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen to a person who is pricked by an avern?

2. What does Severian buy from Agilus?

3. What does Dr. Talos convince a waitress that she could be?

4. What are Severian and his challenger wearing when they enter the arena?

5. What do Dorcas and Severian see after Agilus' execution that disappears almost as soon as they spy it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to the other men that Agilus and Agia had challenged in the same manner as Severian?

3. Why do Severian and the other boys sneak to the gate of the graveyard?

4. Who does Severian realize is Thecla's sister?

5. What does Agia tell Severian he should do rather than dueling with the masked man?

6. What happens to anything that touches the leaves of an avern?

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

8. How do Severian and his challenger attack each other with the averns?

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

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

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