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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. How large in diameter does Rowan note Brahms’s usual gleaning territory is?
(a) 20 miles.
(b) 15 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 30 miles.

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

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

4. How many people are required for a scythe to have contact with the Thunderhead?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. How many people did Slayd reportedly make deadish via ramming a bus?
(a) 30.
(b) 28.
(c) 27.
(d) 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the family on whose lawn Brahms’s dog defecates before Brahms is presented with Rowan?

2. In which of the following does Anastasia live?

3. Tyger’s note that “Oh, man, this is the best news ever!” (62) is an example of which of the following?

4. At what age does Scythe Curie propose to reset her physical self?

5. How many years does the novel note it takes to become a Nimbus agent?

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 is it irony, as the Thunderhead remarks, “that with no body, the world itself becomes [its] body” (75)?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Xenocrates engages in a “trialogue” in a cathedral confessional with a representative of the Thunderhead and an Interlocutor, the latter of which serves as a go-between (20-23). There is a symbolic component to the meeting; what is it, and how does it manifest?

9. What reasons does the Thunderhead give for the inefficiencies in the Office of Unsavory Affairs?

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

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