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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. What occupation does Anastasia’s mother have?
(a) Food disposal engineer.
(b) Food synthesis engineer.
(c) Sound synthesis engineer.
(d) Synthetic polymer engineer.

2. Which of the following can cause a permanent death in the novel?
(a) Acid.
(b) Decapitation.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Bullets.

3. In what year does the action of the novel begin?
(a) Year of the Chinchilla.
(b) Year of the Beaver.
(c) Year of the Capybara.
(d) Year of the Nutria.

4. What euphemism does the Thunderhead use to refer to actions it is asked not to observe?
(a) Closed-door proclivity.
(b) Closed-eye activity.
(c) Closed-door activity.
(d) Open-access activity.

5. Approximately how long is Greyson deadish after stopping Scythes Curie and Anastasia?
(a) One week.
(b) One fortnight.
(c) One day.
(d) One hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following is Xenocrates’s bath scented?

2. In which of the following cities does Anastasia perform a gleaning as part of the plan to trap her assailants?

3. In the novel, the word “hubris” is closest in meaning to which of the following?

4. What color robe does Scythe Constantine wear?

5. In which of the following does Anastasia live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Scythe Brahms observes that “five highly developed senses could often have the semblance of a sixth” (6). To what sixth sense does Brahms refer? What purpose might its denial serve for the genre?

2. The Thunderhead remarks that its Charter Regions are experiments (59). What experiment is it conducting in Texas? What result does it expect?

3. Rowan notes that “imagination had atrophied.…become vestigial and pointless, like the appendix—which had been removed from the human genome more than a hundred years ago” (15). What does the simile foreshadow will happen within the narrative milieu? How does it do so?

4. The Thunderhead rebukes its administration for desiring more ostentatious buildings (69-70). Why, per the text, does it do so?

5. The novel notes Rowan’s work “while others prepared for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday” (53), as well as marking other holidays throughout the year (Christmas is mentioned, among others). What does the denotation of what holidays are celebrated suggest about the culture of the narrative milieu?

6. Contrast the requirements for entering scythedom and for becoming a Nimbus agent.

7. Why is it irony, as the Thunderhead remarks, “that with no body, the world itself becomes [its] body” (75)?

8. In his expulsion hearing, Greyson works “to seamlessly begin to paint a convincing fiction” (93-94). What is the primary rhetorical appeal he makes in his presentation, and how is it enacted?

9. With what task does Faraday charge Rowan concerning his scythe-killing, and why does he do so?

10. How does Purity verify Slayd’s identity, and why does she do so?

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