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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 refers to a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Plot.

2. In Chapter 12, Luke hides as what approaches?
(a) Horses.
(b) A plane.
(c) A train.
(d) A truck.

3. What are incompatibilities in how two or more individuals relate to one another?
(a) External conflicts.
(b) Inner conflicts.
(c) Impulsive conflicts.
(d) Relational conflicts.

4. In what literary device does the author cause a character to speak or act erroneously out of ignorance of some portion of the truth of which the reader/audience is aware?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Symbolism.

5. Why does Luke turn his shirt inside out in Chapter 9?
(a) It symbolizes rebellion.
(b) It is a darker color on the inside.
(c) To hide the police insignia.
(d) It will keep in body heat better.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the villagers in Chapter 15, the Population Police made them grow what crops?

2. What occurs when a character is in disagreement with him or herself?

3. In Chapter 12, when a man yells that he is on official Population Police business, what happens?

4. How does Luke escape from the Population Police in the abandoned house in Chapter 13?

5. Who takes Luke and the other boys to the town of Chiutza to knock on each door to summon the residents for a town meeting in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is established in the setting of the novel in Chapter 1? How is the government set up?

2. Where does Luke find shelter in Chapter 17? Where does he find water?

3. How has the mindset of the population begun to evolve in Chapter 13? Why?

4. What thoughts consume the protagonist after his escape from the villagers in Chapter 9?

5. What past plan does Luke recall with Nina in Chapter 3?

6. Why do the villagers support Luke and his plight? What changed their minds about the government in Chapter 15?

7. Who do the voices turn out to be that Luke hers in the beginning of Chapter 13? How does he escape?

8. What character is revisited by the protagonist in Chapter 7? Where does this character take Luke?

9. Where does the boy take Luke in Chapter 18? What news does Luke discover?

10. What happens when the old woman is brought before the crowd in Chapter 4? What does Officer Houk do?

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