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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. Who does Rowan stab and behead?

2. Why does Scythe Curie believe Scythe Faraday would set Citra up?

3. What does Citra use to research Scythe Faraday's death?

4. Who does Scythe Goddard want Rowan to glean?

5. Who does the Thunderhead say is responsible for what happened to Scythe Faraday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scythe Curie instruct Citra to do in Part 3, Chapter 18?

2. What is the punishment for Scythes Curie and Faraday's commandment breaking?

3. What does Scythe Curie do when Citra questions her in public?

4. What does Rowan do for the Tonists in the cloister?

5. Why did Scythe Curie choose to train Citra?

6. What does Rowan think of Scythe Volta?

7. What did Scythe Goddard plan to do with the two apprentices after Scythe Faraday's death?

8. What is Rowan instructed to do with Esme?

9. What happens to the people Rowan practices on?

10. How does Rowan feel about his growing abilities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do love and loss transform between the mortal days and the post-mortal age, and what does eternity have to do with it?

Essay Topic 2

H.S. Faraday wrote that he continuously prays for guidance and courage. Why does he need those qualities? What does he equate desensitization to?

Essay Topic 3

In the Epigraph excerpt at the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 11, H.S. Curie ponders, "If we are not human, what are we?" (110). What has changed about thoughts and emotions?

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