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

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

3. Which of the following scythes is the Parliamentarian at the conclave?
(a) Sun Tzu.
(b) Salk.
(c) Mandela.
(d) Paine.

4. Of what sect are the Tonists Anastasia confronts in Fulcrum City?
(a) Locrian.
(b) Phrygian.
(c) Dorian.
(d) Aeolian.

5. What title is given the overall leader of the scythes?
(a) Overblade.
(b) High Blade.
(c) Supreme Blade.
(d) Grand Blade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury does Scythe Constantine sustain in the theater?

2. How many apprentices are tested in poisons at the conclave?

3. The comment that “Xenocrates harrumphed at that” (408) offers an example of which of the following?

4. How many new scythes are ordained at the conclave?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Thunderhead cite as primary examples of “circumstances beyond [its] control” (323)?

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

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

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

5. Briefly detail the symbolism of Scythe Anastasia’s inquest being scheduled for hearing on April 1.

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What overall form does Endura take?

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