3. Which of Endura’s towers is noted as tallest?
(a) Nakatomi Plaza.
(b) The Tower of Guard.
(c) The Founder’s Tower.
(d) The Grandslayers’ Tower.

4. What form of address is accorded to a Grandslayer in the novel?
(a) Your Highest Majesty.
(b) Your Exalted Excellency.
(c) Your Right Reverence.
(d) Your Eminent Resplendence.

5. What kharmic statement do the Tonists Anastasia confronts in Fulcrum City make?
(a) What rings out always comes back.
(b) What goes around comes around.
(c) There is always a price to pay.
(d) Payback is unpleasant and inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scythe remarks that “We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds” (349)?

2. What is the collective noun for a group of scythes?

3. The Thunderhead’s remark that “This, I know, is a rabbit hole down which only darkness lies” (430) is an example of which of the following?

4. Whose robe does Rowan don in the Vault of Relics and Futures?

5. Who is the first person to greet Greyson at the Tonist monastery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Thunderhead aver that it does not know?

2. What reasons does Anastasia consider for assisting Greyson in evading Constantine?

3. Consider Scythe Constantine’s comment that he will attend the scythes’ conclave “even if they have to replace [his] blood with antifreeze to make it happen” (281-82). What is implied about him by the comment, and how is it implied?

4. Briefly detail the symbolism in Xenocrates’s predecessor as Grandslayer.

5. What reason does Mendoza give for darkness in Greyson’s bedroom?

6. How does the Thunderhead treat former world capitals, and why?

7. What overall form does Endura take?

8. What reasons are given for the difficulty the novel’s characters have with mortal artwork (263)?

9. What had been the significance of Xenocrates’s dinner parties?

10. What problems does Rowan identify in his attempt to escape Endura?

(see the answer keys)

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