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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 color are Citra and Rowan's armbands?

2. How does Citra feel about gleanings?

3. How does Citra's family react when they see her as an apprentice?

4. Why are more gleanings and scythes needed?

5. What does Scythe Faraday claim is the reason for his visit at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term gleaning allude to?

2. By law, what documents must be kept?

3. How do statistics factor in gleaning?

4. What do most scythes take their names from?

5. Why is the sixth commandment so important?

6. Are scythes allowed to kill other scythes?

7. What role does H.S. Curie say the scythes fulfill in society?

8. What are the only items scythes are allowed to own?

9. What are the first two Scythe Commandments about killing?

10. What do commandments three and four declare about a victim's family members?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Citra's suspicions regarding Scythe Faraday's death? Why does she need Rowan to believe in her? Have they grown apart?

Essay Topic 2

Do the apprentices believe the reason High Blade Xenocrates gives for Scythe Faraday's death? Does self-gleaning seem like something he would do?

Essay Topic 3

Why does religion become irrelevant? What does belief have to do with existence? Does anyone have faith?

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