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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) Erie.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Allentown.
(d) Pittsburgh.

2. How much of the population does the Thunderhead find requires defiance to create meaning?
(a) 10%.
(b) 2%.
(c) 3%.
(d) 4%.

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

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

5. How long is Tyger suspended for his pool prank?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large in diameter does Rowan note Brahms’s usual gleaning territory is?

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

3. What color robes does Scythe Anastasia wear?

4. In what city does Greyson live?

5. Kissing a scythe’s ring offers a person how long an immunity from gleaning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Anastasia notes that the site of the Mortality Memorial is “a city underserved by the scythedom” because it “was too macabre for them” and “in very poor taste” (45). Why would scythes, whose work is in killing people, find celebrations of death macabre and in poor taste, per the novel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What reasons does Scythe Curie give for taking an excursion to Endura when Anastasia is excused from gleaning?

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