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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. In what city is the Mortality Memorial?
(a) Allentown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Erie.
2. 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.
3. How large in diameter does Rowan note Brahms’s usual gleaning territory is?
(a) 30 miles.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 20 miles.
(d) 15 miles.
4. How many people are required for a scythe to have contact with the Thunderhead?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.
5. In what city does Greyson live?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Fulcrum City.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Louisville.
Short Answer Questions
1. In which of the following does Anastasia live?
2. The Thunderhead calculates what proportion of people as needing to be “supplanted”?
3. Why does the Thunderhead avoid taking action to capture Rowan, per Xenocrates’s contact with the Thunderhead?
4. What euphemism does the Thunderhead use to refer to actions it is asked not to observe?
5. What occupation does Anastasia’s mother have?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Munira carry the nickname among the library clerks that she does?
2. What reasons does the Thunderhead give for the inefficiencies in the Office of Unsavory Affairs?
3. What reason does the Thunderhead give for not accepting responsibility for dealing death?
4. Why is it irony, as the Thunderhead remarks, “that with no body, the world itself becomes [its] body” (75)?
5. What possibilities for maintaining Earth’s human population count does the Thunderhead foresee, and why are they problems?
6. What does Rowan identify as problems with the scythes’ security forces when he confronts Xenocrates in his bath?
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. Why does Anastasia feel the need to call upon Greyson after his denigration to unsavory status, per her report?
10. 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?
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