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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 kharmic statement do the Tonists Anastasia confronts in Fulcrum City make?
(a) What rings out always comes back.
(b) Payback is unpleasant and inevitable.
(c) There is always a price to pay.
(d) What goes around comes around.

2. Of what sect are the Tonists Anastasia confronts in Fulcrum City?
(a) Locrian.
(b) Dorian.
(c) Phrygian.
(d) Aeolian.

3. What occupation does Anastasia’s mother have?
(a) Synthetic polymer engineer.
(b) Sound synthesis engineer.
(c) Food synthesis engineer.
(d) Food disposal engineer.

4. What color are Xenocrates’s robes?
(a) Rainbow.
(b) Platinum.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silver.

5. On what day is the scythes’ conclave slated to start?
(a) First Wednesday of the new year.
(b) First Tuesday of the new year.
(c) First Monday of the new year.
(d) First Thursday of the new year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Thunderhead avoid taking action to capture Rowan, per Xenocrates’s contact with the Thunderhead?

2. The first stanza of the nursery rhyme about the Land of Nod, “Let’s all forsake / the Land of Wake, / And break for the Land of Nod” (145) offers an example of which of the following?

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

4. Which of the following is Greyson’s middle name?

5. The Thunderhead notes that Earth prior to its governance could have supported no more than how many humans?

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