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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. At what time is Greyson’s first probation meeting?
(a) 8:30 a.m.
(b) 9:00 a.m.
(c) 8:00 a.m.
(d) 8:00 p.m.

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

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

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

5. What name does Brahms’s dog have?
(a) Sonata.
(b) Lullaby.
(c) Toccata.
(d) Requiem.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city is the Mortality Memorial?

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

3. In which of the following does Anastasia live?

4. In what martial art are scythes trained?

5. What form of address is accorded to a High Blade in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does the Thunderhead give for not accepting responsibility for dealing death?

2. Why does Anastasia feel the need to call upon Greyson after his denigration to unsavory status, per her report?

3. There is a note that Scythe Anastasia “was beginning to hate having to take the obsequious self-driving cars. Funny, but it had never bothered her before her apprenticeship. Citra Terranova had never had a burning desire to learn to drive—but Scythe Anastasia now did. Perhaps it was part of the self-determined nature of being a scythe that made her feel uncomfortable as a passive passenger in a publicar. Or maybe it was the spirit of Scythe Curie rubbing off on her” (38). What rhetorical appeal/s is/are present in the passage?

4. Contrast the requirements for entering scythedom and for becoming a Nimbus agent.

5. How does Purity verify Slayd’s identity, and why does she do so?

6. Rowan notes that “imagination had atrophied.…become vestigial and pointless, like the appendix—which had been removed from the human genome more than a hundred years ago” (15). What does the simile foreshadow will happen within the narrative milieu? How does it do so?

7. What is the irony in Greyson’s unsavory cousin having “iron chains surgically implanted in his wrists” (102)?

8. What reasons does Scythe Constantine give for the scythedom’s efforts to protect Anastasia when she is excused from gleaning?

9. The Thunderhead remarks that its Charter Regions are experiments (59). What experiment is it conducting in Texas? What result does it expect?

10. In his expulsion hearing, Greyson works “to seamlessly begin to paint a convincing fiction” (93-94). What is the primary rhetorical appeal he makes in his presentation, and how is it enacted?

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