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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. How much of her body does Scythe Rand report was burned?

2. Whose robe does Anastasia don in the Vault of Relics and Futures?

3. How many were the founding scythes?

4. When meeting with Faraday in Savannah, what does Curie drink?

5. How old is the person upon whom Slayd preys to enact his distraction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the reasons guessed at for Curie sealing Anastasia and Rowan into the Vault of Relics and Futures?

3. What reasons does Scythe Curie give for her antipathy towards Tonists (239)?

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

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

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

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

8. Briefly detail the symbolism of Scythe Anastasia turning to Scythe Cervantes for help in her procedural gambit.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

It is remarked that the rebuilt Great Library of Alexandria serves as a repository for journals the scythes are required to keep throughout their lifetimes of service in “leather-bound parchment volumes” (146). What function would such journals and their repository serve within the narrative milieu? What in the text suggests as much? How does it do so?

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