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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color robes does Scythe Curie wear?
(a) Puce.
(b) Magenta.
(c) Lavender.
(d) Ochre.

2. In which of the following cities does Anastasia perform a gleaning as part of the plan to trap her assailants?
(a) Minot.
(b) Bismarck.
(c) Grand Forks.
(d) Fargo.

3. What language is spoken in Texas in the novel?
(a) Mortal Spanish.
(b) Mortal Spanglish.
(c) Mortal English.
(d) Common

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

5. In what city is the Mortality Memorial?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Allentown.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Erie.

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

7. The comment that “Problem-solving was not the scythedom’s strength” (97) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Litotes.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Alliteration.

8. What job satisfaction rate does Slayd’s replacement probation officer cite her employment center as having?
(a) 93%.
(b) 86%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 79%.

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

10. Which of the following can cause a permanent death in the novel?
(a) Wind.
(b) Water.
(c) Earth.
(d) FIre.

11. 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?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Alliteration.

12. What employment rate does Slayd’s replacement probation officer cite her employment center as having?
(a) 79%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 86%.
(d) 93%.

13. Into what day does Davey threaten to knock Slayd?
(a) Next Monday.
(b) Next Thursday.
(c) Next Wednesday.
(d) Next Tuesday.

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

15. In what Texas city is Tyger’s position?
(a) San Antonio.
(b) Houston.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Austin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large in diameter does Rowan note Brahms’s usual gleaning territory is?

2. What is Anastasia’s younger brother named?

3. How many Charter Regions does the Thunderhead maintain?

4. What make of car does Anastasia drive at Curie’s behest?

5. How wide a crater would have been left by the trap for Scythes Curie and Anastasia?

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