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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 many people does Scythe Goddard glean between leaving the conclave and getting into the limousine with Scythe Rand?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. Which of the following terms do Tonists use to describe their religious icon?
(a) Pitch-pipe.
(b) Bident.
(c) Trident.
(d) Tuner.

3. What is the collective noun for a group of scythes?
(a) Elegy.
(b) Clowder.
(c) Murder.
(d) Parliament.

4. What line is supposed to be Anastasia’s cue (268)?
(a) “Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?”
(b) “Hence! Wilt thou lift up Olympus?”
(c) “Beware the Ides of March.”
(d) “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

5. What is the diameter of Endura?
(a) 4 leagues.
(b) 4 miles.
(c) 4 kilometers.
(d) 4 rods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does the technician estimate it will take for Endura to sink?

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

4. How many of the attackers on the theater hail from Texas?

5. How much of her body does Scythe Rand report was burned?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reasons does Scythe Curie give for her antipathy towards Tonists (239)?

3. What does Rowan consider the major point of his conversations with the Thunderhead?

4. What rituals attend upon opening the scythes’ conclave, and why are they important?

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

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

7. What clues do Scythes Rand and Goddard leave to affirm what they have done to Tyger?

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

9. What overall form does Endura take?

10. Briefly detail the symbolism of Scythe Anastasia turning to Scythe Cervantes for help in her procedural gambit.

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