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

2. In what city does Greyson live?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Louisville.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Fulcrum City.

3. What nickname does Munira have among the library clerks?
(a) The mortician.
(b) The harbinger.
(c) The undertaker.
(d) The avatar.

4. How wide a crater would have been left by the trap for Scythes Curie and Anastasia?
(a) 100 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 200 feet.
(d) 50 feet.

5. What is the name of the family on whose lawn Brahms’s dog defecates before Brahms is presented with Rowan?
(a) Vale.
(b) Worthington.
(c) Smith.
(d) Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The phrase that “it was like a piece of gristle in his mouth” (101) offer an example of which of the following?

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. The Thunderhead calculates what proportion of people as needing to be “supplanted”?

4. In what Texas city is Tyger’s position?

5. How long was spent reconstructing the Great Library of Alexandria in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Thunderhead rebukes its administration for desiring more ostentatious buildings (69-70). Why, per the text, does it do so?

2. Why does Munira carry the nickname among the library clerks that she does?

3. What reasons does Sir Albin Aldrich give for wanting to be gleaned during a performance of Julius Caesar?

4. Scythe Brahms observes that “no one should see a scythe so indisposed and live” when a couple sees him bestrewn with rotting food and helps him; instead, he gives them immunity from execution and sends them on their way (11-12). How does the passage serve to reinforce his personal authority?

5. Scythe Brahms observes that “five highly developed senses could often have the semblance of a sixth” (6). To what sixth sense does Brahms refer? What purpose might its denial serve for the genre?

6. 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?

7. The Thunderhead remarks that it hopes to “have the virtual shoulders of Atlas to bear” what it describes as “very literally, the weight of the world” (167). There is an error in the phrasing; what is it, and why is it wrong?

8. With what task does Faraday charge Rowan concerning his scythe-killing, and why does he do so?

9. What reasons does the Thunderhead give for finding employment for all people who want it?

10. What reasons does Xenocrates rehearse for visiting his bathhouse more frequently as the year draws to a close?

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