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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. What does Severian decide to do before completing his challenge?
(a) Nap for strength.
(b) Pray.
(c) Eat.
(d) Give his sword to Agilus.

2. What does Severian realize about Dorcas after he executes Agilus?
(a) She is his mother.
(b) He loves her.
(c) She is afraid of him.
(d) He hates her.

3. What will happen to a person who is pricked by an avern?
(a) They will turn to stone.
(b) They will die.
(c) They will become blind and deaf.
(d) They will go insane.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thecla hope for while she is imprisoned?

2. What does Master Gurloes ask Severian when he is summoned to the master's office?

3. After the play, Severian falls asleep and dreams of whom?

4. Severian gives Agilus instructions to prevent what at his execution?

5. What does Thecla ask the head of the guild for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Severian realize about the ferryman who carries him and Agia across the river to get the avern?

2. What does Severian keep from his friends about his near drowning in the river?

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

4. What does Agia have Severian disguise himself as when they leave the shop to find the avern?

5. What vision do Severian and Dorcas see following the duel?

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

7. Why is it impossible for Master Malrubius to have been outside Severian's room after the feast?

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

9. What does Severian do for Thecla that breaks a rule of the guild?

10. How is Severian saved from drowning in the river as he and the other apprentices return home from the graveyard?

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