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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 diameter of Endura?
2. Who is the first Grandslayer to die after the inquest?
3. Of what stone is the EuroScandia Seat of Consideration made?
4. How many years old is Endura?
5. When meeting with Faraday in Savannah, what does Curie drink?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Thunderhead treat former world capitals, and why?
2. What clues do Scythes Rand and Goddard leave to affirm what they have done to Tyger?
3. 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?
4. What reasons does the Thunderhead give for disliking having its “backbrain” searched?
5. What is the persistent remark made by Grandslayers about their Seats of Consideration?
6. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Goddard’s oration to the Grandslayers during the inquest, and why is it the primary appeal?
7. How does Xenocrates die? What occasions the death?
8. What information does Rowan have about Texas when he awakens in captivity there (246)?
9. What problems does Rowan identify in his attempt to escape Endura?
10. What overall form does Endura take?
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 “although I do not require devotion, am I not deserving of it?” as it considers its status relative to the deities worshipped in its past (158). Based on the text leading up to the comment—the beginning of the novel through Chapter 15, “Hall of the Founders”—is the Thunderhead correct? How or how not, and to what extent?
Essay Topic 3
Tyger remarks that the language of Texas in the novel is “like listening to Shakespeare” (60). Follow the simile and its implications: what does it mean for Texan speech to be like Shakespearean, what does it suggest about Texas in the novel, and how does it do so?
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