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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the people of the abyss in Chapter 24?
(a) The dancing revolutionaries.
(b) The working/poor classes not affiliated with the Favored Unions.
(c) The industrialists of the Mercenaries.
(d) The Oligarch fools.

2. What event is shrouded in mystery for seven centuries that is mentioned in the last section of the book?
(a) The massacre of the Oligarchs.
(b) The execution of Ernest Everhard.
(c) The death of Avis.
(d) The birth of the new Mercenaries.

3. What is Avis alerted of in the footnotes of the last section of the book?
(a) An insurgent uprising.
(b) An upcoming mercenary raid.
(c) A bloody massacre.
(d) A revolutionary war.

4. What is untouched and unharmed that belonged to the Oligarchs during the rampage in Chapter 24?
(a) Dungeons.
(b) Prisons.
(c) Cathedrals.
(d) Enclaves.

5. Who is condemned to death by the Oligarchy after being discovered as a socialist spy in Chapter 20?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Carson.
(d) Everhard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Avis witness being thrown into a police convoy in Chapter 24?

2. How does the Oligarchy keep getting in the way of the Revolutionaries in Chapter 14?

3. Why are the socialists arrested at the event in Chapter 17?

4. What is the person who humbly ministers the poor call his or her work terrified of in Chapter 12?

5. What does the person who humbly ministers the poor call his or her work in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Avis witness in the city that alarms her?

2. Describe the Bishop's new occupation and the reasons for doing so.

3. Describe what happens to Avis and Everhard in the end of the novel.

4. What happened to Bishop Morehouse when he began to preach again?

5. Describe what happened when Everhard was giving a speech in defense of a bill attended by many soldiers in scarlet livery.

6. Describe the Fighting Groups.

7. How was the First Revolt supposed to begin?

8. Describe Avis' remembrance of Jackson and the people affected by his case.

9. What happened to prevent the rebellion of the First Revolt and stop the revolutionaries?

10. Describe the seamstress.

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