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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. The comment that “Xenocrates harrumphed at that” (408) offers an example of which of the following?

2. What weapon does Purity brandish as she pursues Slayd into the theater?

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

4. Of what sect are the Tonists Anastasia confronts in Fulcrum City?

5. Of what stone is the North Merica Seat of Consideration made?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly detail the symbolism of Scythe Anastasia’s inquest being scheduled for hearing on April 1.

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

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

4. What reasons are given for the difficulty the novel’s characters have with mortal artwork (263)?

5. 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)?

6. What reasons does Anastasia consider for assisting Greyson in evading Constantine?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Consider the following passage:

It was, therefore, decided that the play would conclude shortly after Caesar dies, robbing an irritated Marc Antony of his famous “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” speech. No one would cry havoc and release the dogs of war. Instead, the lights would come up on a stunned audience. There would be no curtain call. The curtain, in fact, would never close. Instead, Caesar’s very dead body would remain on the stage until the last of the audience left. This, Aldrich’s final moment of acting was to be marked by an inability to act in any way whatever (261).

The proposed adaptation is a substantial one. Given the presumed audience for the play within the text, what effect is the alteration likely to have? What in the text suggests it? How does it do so?

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