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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 AWFul club does Slayd meet Purity?
(a) LokUp.
(b) Mault.
(c) MØRG.
(d) Twise.

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

3. How many of the scythedom’s guards accompany Constantine to question Greyson?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. What instrument does Ethan J. Hogan play?
(a) Cello.
(b) Bass.
(c) Viola.
(d) Violin.

5. What color robe does Scythe Constantine wear?
(a) Scarlet.
(b) Vermillion.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Crimson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname does Munira have among the library clerks?

2. In which of the following does Anastasia live?

3. What name does Brahms’s dog have?

4. How long is Tyger suspended for his pool prank?

5. With what type of knife does Faraday wake Rowan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What possibilities for maintaining Earth’s human population count does the Thunderhead foresee, and why are they problems?

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

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

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

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

6. At first glance, the term “deadish” that appears throughout the novel might seem to be a euphemism; the “ish” suffix tends to be one that mitigates the effect or impact of the stem word to which it is attached. Why, however, is it NOT an example of euphemism?

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

8. 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?

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

10. The novel notes Rowan’s work “while others prepared for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday” (53), as well as marking other holidays throughout the year (Christmas is mentioned, among others). What does the denotation of what holidays are celebrated suggest about the culture of the narrative milieu?

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