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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 the name of the Librarian of Congress Faraday and Munira meet?

2. How long is Scythe Constantine expected to convalesce after the attack on the theater?

3. How many years old is Endura?

4. Of what stone is the Australia Seat of Consideration made?

5. Which scythe is the third nominee for High Blade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the backup plan for the distraction at the assault on Scythes Curie and Anastasia at the theater? Why is it the backup plan (264-65)?

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

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

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

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

6. Consider briefly the symbolism of the name Scythe Faraday assumes in the District of Columbia.

7. What is the persistent remark made by Grandslayers about their Seats of Consideration?

8. What overall form does Endura take?

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

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

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

The Thunderhead remarks that “Goddard is the most recent in a long line of scythes who look up into the night sky and see not the stars, but the darkness between them” (383). What does it mean to focus on that darkness? What in the text and in experience says so, and how does it say it?

Essay Topic 3

Greyson notes that those who, like him, express an early interest in working in Thunderhead administration are generally dull, boring (67). Why might this be so? What in the text and in experience suggest it, and how does it do so?

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