Plot
Character Traits
Vocabulary
Setting
Characters
100

Faraday begins training Citra and Rowan in weapons, poisons, martial arts, and this overall discipline.

What is killcraft?

100

Citra continues to cry over the gleanings she witnesses. This demonstrates this trait.

What is compassionate or sensitive?

100

The techniques and skills used by scythes to end lives are collectively called this.

What is killcraft?

100

Faraday stores his guns, blades, and poisons in this room.

What is his weapons den?

100

This mentor teaches Citra and Rowan a wide variety of gleaning methods.

Who is Scythe Faraday?

200

Citra is allowed to leave Faraday’s home briefly to attend this family event.

What is her aunt’s wedding?

200

Faraday teaches many subjects and methods because he wants his apprentices to be thoroughly prepared. This reveals this trait.

What is disciplined, thorough, or demanding?

200

To become less emotionally affected by something after repeated exposure is to become this.

What is desensitized?

200

Citra feels isolated when she briefly returns to her family at this event.

What is her aunt’s wedding?

200

This apprentice dislikes keeping a journal but carefully researches the possible gleaning subjects.

Who is Rowan Damisch?

300

Faraday gives Rowan the responsibility of selecting this.

What is the subject of Faraday’s next gleaning?

300

Rowan researches all four possible subjects rather than judging them only by their photographs. This demonstrates this trait.

What is fair, thoughtful, or unbiased?

300

The required number of people a scythe must glean during a period of time is called this.

What is a quota?

300

Rowan searches this entire region for possible gleaning subjects.

What is MidAmerica?

300

This apprentice attends her aunt’s wedding but leaves after feeling uncomfortable and avoided.

Who is Citra Terranova?

400

Rowan’s Thunderhead search narrows the possible gleaning subjects to this number of people.

What is four?

400

Rowan tells the selected man that his daughter still loves him before the gleaning. This reveals this quality.

What is empathetic or compassionate?

400

The specific conditions Rowan enters into the Thunderhead to narrow his search are called these.

What are search parameters?

400

Faraday carries out Rowan’s chosen method of gleaning at this natural location.

What is a river?

400

This fourth-grade girl survives the food-court gleaning after hiding under a table.

Who is Esme?

500

During the food-court attack, the blue-robed scythe finds Esme but does this instead of gleaning her.

What is granting her immunity and taking her with him?

500

The blue-robed scythe and his companions attack the food court with blades and a flamethrower. Their behavior demonstrates this trait.

What is brutal, cruel, or merciless?

500

An act of bravery performed by someone whose regular job does not involve rescue or protection is heroism in this type of capacity.

What is a nonprofessional capacity?

500

Esme hides beneath a table during a mass gleaning in this public location.

What is a food court?

500

This scythe finds Esme, grants her immunity, and promises her the life she has always dreamed of.

Who is the blue-robed scythe, Scythe Goddard?