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

2. The comment that “they may have handed me a pearl within this nasty oyster” (373) is an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Simile.

3. How many times does Goddard kill Rowan during the latter’s captivity?
(a) 6.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

4. What adage regarding interference does Curie offer after Anastasia confronts Tonists in Fulcrum City?
(a) Let sleeping dogs lie.
(b) Never laugh at living dragons.
(c) Don’t start none, won’t be none.
(d) Leave a cult to its cacophony.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does Purity brandish as she pursues Slayd into the theater?

2. What title is given the overall leader of the scythes?

3. How many of the Thunderhead’s cameras does Slayd need to distract to permit the assault on Scythes Curie and Anastasia to proceed?

4. The comment that “the line in the sand became a fissure that threatened to swallow those who did not choose a side” (327) offers an example of which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is present in the room to which Greyson is led when he arrives at the Tonist monastery?

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

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

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

5. What requirements does the Thunderhead express for a new Grandslayer to be installed?

6. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Anastasia’s oration to the Grandslayers during the inquest, and why is it the primary appeal?

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

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

9. What information does Rowan have about Texas when he awakens in captivity there (246)?

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

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