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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. Which of the following can cause a permanent death in the novel?
(a) Bullets.
(b) Acid.
(c) Decapitation.
(d) Exsanguination.

2. What job satisfaction rate does Slayd’s replacement probation officer cite her employment center as having?
(a) 79%.
(b) 93%.
(c) 86%.
(d) 100%.

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

4. What decade does the AWFul club Mault emulate?
(a) The Seventies.
(b) The Sixties.
(c) The Forties.
(d) The Fifties.

5. Which of the following scythes speaks out against Anastasia’s methods?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Truman.
(d) Eishenhower.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following games does Ethan J. Hogan play with Scythe Anastasia?

3. The sentence “Death and disfigurement had been replaced by revival and reprimand” (88) offers examples of which of the following?

4. In what year does the action of the novel begin?

5. In what city is the Mortality Memorial?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. Xenocrates, “the most important scythe in the region,” notes that he “enjoyed the robe—except on the occasions that its weight became an issue” (19). While he remarks on an example relating to swimming in the note, there is a symbolic meaning to the comment. What is it, and how does it appear?

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

10. What does Rowan identify as problems with the scythes’ security forces when he confronts Xenocrates in his bath?

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