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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Circumstances Beyond.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of address is accorded to a Grandslayer in the novel?
(a) Your Eminent Resplendence.
(b) Your Exalted Excellency.
(c) Your Right Reverence.
(d) Your Highest Majesty.

2. Purity’s comment that “We’re gonna mark the world like animals do, and leave behind a scent that’ll never go away” (198) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Litotes.
(b) Simile.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Metaphor.

3. How many apprentices are tested in poisons at the conclave?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

4. The comment that “it lived by the laws it levied” (95) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Rhyme.

5. The Thunderhead calculates what proportion of people as needing to be “supplanted”?
(a) 1 in 933,684.
(b) 1 in 314,152.
(c) 1 in 123,789.
(d) 1 in 869,272.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the action of the novel begin?

2. Which scythe is the third nominee for High Blade?

3. What is Anastasia’s mother named?

4. The comment that “Problem-solving was not the scythedom’s strength” (97) offers an example of which of the following?

5. What kharmic statement do the Tonists Anastasia confronts in Fulcrum City make?

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