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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. The Thunderhead notes that Earth prior to its governance could have supported no more than how many humans?
(a) 10 billion.
(b) 50 billion.
(c) 100 billion.
(d) 1 trillion.

2. Which of the following games does Ethan J. Hogan play with Scythe Anastasia?
(a) Baccarat.
(b) Roulette.
(c) Poker.
(d) Blackjack.

3. What color robe does Scythe Constantine wear?
(a) Vermillion.
(b) Cardinal.
(c) Scarlet.
(d) Crimson.

4. At what age does Scythe Curie propose to reset her physical self?
(a) 55.
(b) 65.
(c) 60.
(d) 70.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What euphemism does the Thunderhead use to refer to actions it is asked not to observe?

3. Which of the following scythes speaks out against Anastasia’s methods?

4. What does Tyger state is his purpose in visiting Rowan?

5. What nickname does Munira have among the library clerks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Munira carry the nickname among the library clerks that she does?

2. 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?

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. What does Rowan identify as problems with the scythes’ security forces when he confronts Xenocrates in his bath?

6. What reasons does Scythe Constantine give for the scythedom’s efforts to protect Anastasia when she is excused from gleaning?

7. 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?

8. What reasons does Xenocrates rehearse for visiting his bathhouse more frequently as the year draws to a close?

9. What reasons does Scythe Curie give for taking an excursion to Endura when Anastasia is excused from gleaning?

10. At first glance, the term “deadish” that appears throughout the novel might seem to be a euphemism; the “ish” suffix tends to be one that mitigates the effect or impact of the stem word to which it is attached. Why, however, is it NOT an example of euphemism?

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