Q 01/05

In Neal Shusterman's Scythe, which benevolent AI governs a world that has conquered death?

A) The Stratosphere

B) The Thunderhead

C) The Overmind

D) The Nimbus

Answer · why

B) The Thunderhead

The Thunderhead runs every essential function on Earth, yet it may not interfere with the scythes and can only watch what they do.

Q 02/05

In Neal Shusterman's Scythe, what do scythes call the permanent killings they are ordered to carry out?

A) Gleaning

B) Reaping

C) Culling

D) Harvesting

Answer · why

A) Gleaning

Gleaning is the scythes' word for a death that cannot be undone, in a future where everyone else who dies is simply revived.

Q 03/05

In Neal Shusterman's Unwind, the Bill of Life ends a second American civil war fought over which issue?

A) Gun control

B) Immigration

C) Abortion

D) Euthanasia

Answer · why

C) Abortion

Abortion caused the Heartland War, and the peace deal banned it while letting parents have children aged 13 to 18 unwound instead.

Q 04/05

Neal Shusterman's Challenger Deep is named after the deepest known point of Earth's seabed, found where?

A) The Tonga Trench

B) The Java Trench

C) The Puerto Rico Trench

D) The Mariana Trench

Answer · why

D) The Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench holds the real Challenger Deep, and in the novel Caden Bosch imagines sailing there under a captain whose parrot urges mutiny.

Q 05/05

Neal Shusterman says his deadly amusement park thriller Full Tilt was inspired by a hellish day where?

A) Disneyland

B) Six Flags

C) SeaWorld

D) Cedar Point

Answer · why

B) Six Flags

Six Flags gave him the bad day behind Full Tilt, in which Blake must survive rides that can truly kill in order to rescue his younger brother Quinn.