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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Tyger state is his purpose in visiting Rowan?
2. Into what day does Davey threaten to knock Slayd?
3. Approximately how long is Greyson deadish after stopping Scythes Curie and Anastasia?
4. How long is Rowan disallowed public transit due to his outbursts when talking with his mother?
5. How many weekends of public service does Tyger have to perform for his pool prank?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rowan identify as problems with the scythes’ security forces when he confronts Xenocrates in his bath?
2. Contrast the requirements for entering scythedom and for becoming a Nimbus agent.
3. Rowan notes that “imagination had atrophied.…become vestigial and pointless, like the appendix—which had been removed from the human genome more than a hundred years ago” (15). What does the simile foreshadow will happen within the narrative milieu? How does it do so?
4. 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?
5. The Thunderhead remarks that it hopes to “have the virtual shoulders of Atlas to bear” what it describes as “very literally, the weight of the world” (167). There is an error in the phrasing; what is it, and why is it wrong?
6. What reasons does Xenocrates rehearse for visiting his bathhouse more frequently as the year draws to a close?
7. How does Purity verify Slayd’s identity, and why does she do so?
8. Why does Anastasia feel the need to call upon Greyson after his denigration to unsavory status, per her report?
9. The Thunderhead remarks that its Charter Regions are experiments (59). What experiment is it conducting in Texas? What result does it expect?
10. What reason does the Thunderhead give for not accepting responsibility for dealing death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Thunderhead remarks that “acts taken in anger are intrinsically problematic, and quite often lead to destruction” (443). Does the novel as a whole confirm the remark? What in the text suggests whether it does or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Greyson, in his persona as Slayd, poses the following questions (195): “Was it wrong for the Thunderhead to rehabilitate people from the inside out? Should evil people be allowed the freedom to be evil, without safety nets?” What answers does the novel give to those questions? What in the text indicates the answer? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the injuries sustained by people in the attack on Scythes Curie and Anastasia in the theater—and from which they are revived and healed. What effects would sustaining such injuries, with awareness of them and of recovery from them, likely have on those who suffer them? What in the text suggests those effects? How does it do so?
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