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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 is Anastasia’s mother named?
2. The first stanza of the nursery rhyme about the Land of Nod, “Let’s all forsake / the Land of Wake, / And break for the Land of Nod” (145) offers an example of which of the following?
3. At what age does Scythe Curie propose to reset her physical self?
4. What breed of dog does Brahms own?
5. How many Charter Regions does the Thunderhead maintain?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does the Thunderhead give for not accepting responsibility for dealing death?
2. What is the irony in Greyson’s unsavory cousin having “iron chains surgically implanted in his wrists” (102)?
3. What does Rowan identify as problems with the scythes’ security forces when he confronts Xenocrates in his bath?
4. The scythes are noted as having an officer called a Parliamentarian. There is a symbolic component to the presence of such an officer; what is it, and how does it manifest?
5. What reasons does Xenocrates rehearse for visiting his bathhouse more frequently as the year draws to a close?
6. Why does Munira carry the nickname among the library clerks that she does?
7. Xenocrates engages in a “trialogue” in a cathedral confessional with a representative of the Thunderhead and an Interlocutor, the latter of which serves as a go-between (20-23). There is a symbolic component to the meeting; what is it, and how does it manifest?
8. The Thunderhead remarks that its Charter Regions are experiments (59). What experiment is it conducting in Texas? What result does it expect?
9. Why is it irony, as the Thunderhead remarks, “that with no body, the world itself becomes [its] body” (75)?
10. How does Purity verify Slayd’s identity, and why does she do so?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Scythe Curie remarks, “That’s exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder” (344). Based on the novel, is that an accurate assessment? What in the text supports or undermines the assessment, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the following exchange:
“Yes, but the crystalline appearance of the tower pinnacles is beautiful, isn’t it?”
Xenocrates harrumphed at that. “Isn’t form supposed to follow function?”
“Not in the scythedom,” replied his valet (408).
Does the novel as a whole support the assertion? What in the text suggests whether it does or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
The Thunderhead notes, “To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake” (489). Is the Thunderhead’s assessment accurate? What in the text and in experience suggests whether it is or not? How does it do so?
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