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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three: Chapters 1-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skill does Claire tell the boat worker that the members of her community are required to learn at the age of five?
(a) To rollerskate.
(b) To draw.
(c) To ride a bicycle.
(d) To swim.

2. What is a behavior that Claire's son does NOT display during naptime at the Nurturing Center?
(a) Sucking his thumb.
(b) Kicking.
(c) Holding his breath.
(d) Shrieking.

3. Dimitri tells the Fish Hatchery workers that a healthy diet does not include what?
(a) Mammal.
(b) Marsupial.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Grains.

4. A community citizen is given his or her own dwelling only after what event occurs?
(a) Assignment of a job.
(b) Assignment of a gender.
(c) Assignment of a Newchild.
(d) Assignment of a spouse.

5. Why do the children in the schoolyard gaze curiously at Claire when she is on her way to the Fish Hatchery?
(a) She is riding a bicycle and everyone else walks.
(b) She is riding a scooter and everyone else drives cars.
(c) She is riding a tandem bicycle with no one in the second seat.
(d) She is walking and everyone else rides bicycles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had kept Einar's father from flinging his infant body into the fire on the day of Einar's birth?

2. When a Newchild is showing signs of being ineligible for assignment, it is called a failure to do what?

3. What special power does Gabe possess, which he calls veering?

4. In the recurring dreams Claire has in which she is wearing a leather mask, she always weeps when what event occurs?

5. What quality of the villagers' discovery of Claire is one they have never experienced before?

(see the answer key)

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