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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession does Slayd assign to his fictional parents?
(a) Chemistry professors.
(b) Law professors.
(c) English professors.
(d) Physics professors.

2. How many people are required for a scythe to have contact with the Thunderhead?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

3. Which of the following is Greyson’s middle name?
(a) Timothy.
(b) Russell.
(c) Archibald.
(d) Simon.

4. How many Charter Regions does the Thunderhead maintain?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

5. What is Tyger doing when Rowan finds him in his apartment?
(a) Drinking a soda.
(b) Scratching himself.
(c) Eating a sandwich.
(d) Watching television.

6. How long is Greyson’s initial sentence of unsavoriness?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 4 months.

7. How many weekends of public service does Tyger have to perform for his pool prank?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

8. In what year does the action of the novel begin?
(a) Year of the Beaver.
(b) Year of the Chinchilla.
(c) Year of the Nutria.
(d) Year of the Capybara.

9. What form of Bokator do Tyger and Scythe Rand practice?
(a) Fiddleback.
(b) Black Widow.
(c) Tarantula.
(d) Brown Recluse.

10. How old is Rowan as the novel begins?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

11. How many demerits result from missing a probation meeting?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

12. The note “Meet me at midnight at the Mortality Memorial” (44) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Rhyme.
(b) Enjambment.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Alliteration.

13. On what day of the week does Rowan surveil Brahms’s house?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Monday.

14. How long was spent reconstructing the Great Library of Alexandria in the novel?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 25 years.

15. The comment that “as much as [Greyson] loved the Thunderhead, he hated it right now” (95) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Superposition.
(b) Imposition.
(c) Supposition.
(d) Juxtaposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can cause a permanent death in the novel?

2. Munira’s name carries which of the following meanings?

3. With which of the following is Xenocrates’s bath scented?

4. In the novel, the word “hubris” is closest in meaning to which of the following?

5. Kissing a scythe’s ring offers a person how long an immunity from gleaning?

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