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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Zekeal help Kayla when he arrives at her house?
(a) He hacks back into her father's file.
(b) He finishes her calculus homework.
(c) He moves the living room furniture.
(d) He bathes her dog.

2. Who is living at the Route Nine Motor Inn?
(a) Gene Drake's former roommate.
(b) Kayla's older brother.
(c) Kayla's grandfather.
(d) Amber and her parents.

3. What happens if the hospital determines a child may have a future problem?
(a) They work to change the genes of the child.
(b) They actively or passively kill the child..
(c) They send the child for rehabilitation.
(d) They give the parents the option of letting their child die.

4. What does Kayla refrain from doing when Mfumbe asks her something?
(a) Talking sarcastically to him.
(b) Confiding in him.
(c) Lying to him.
(d) Fleeing from him.

5. What does Kayla suggest are related?
(a) Tattooing and the Bull market.
(b) Cloning and the religious right.
(c) Tattooing and the radical left.
(d) Cloning and tattooing.

6. Why are Amber's parents feeling stressed about a planned move?
(a) They want to buy new furnishings but do not have the money.
(b) They now have nowhere to live.
(c) They don't have enough money for the moving costs.
(d) They are moving into an area that is considered unsafe.

7. In her vision, where does Kayla see herself?
(a) In a crowd of people headed for a large city.
(b) In an art gallery in Paris.
(c) On top of a bare mountain near the coast.
(d) In the desert.

8. What did Kayla see next door on the night the person whose death was reported in the newspaper was killed?
(a) A party at the neighbor's house.
(b) A search of the deceased's house.
(c) A fight between a boy and his parents.
(d) A fight between a husband and wife.

9. Why does Kayla take the job there?
(a) She loves the products they sell.
(b) It is the only place that will hire her without a tattoo.
(c) She will get a discount.
(d) Environmental issues are really important to her.

10. According to the newspaper's story, why was the person killed?
(a) He created a ruckus about tattoos.
(b) His wife thought he was cheating.
(c) He was in the line of fire for another target.
(d) Her husband was angry and killed her.

11. Why is Kayla unlikely to qualify for a scholarship?
(a) Her grades in computer class are too low.
(b) Her art classes are not varied enough.
(c) Her classes were not advanced.
(d) Her parents have too much money.

12. What does Kayla reveal that she learned?
(a) About her father's file.
(b) About the government's push to deport people who are not tattooed.
(c) About a resistance group in the mountains of Colorado.
(d) About a resistance group in Nevada.

13. What is proposed about persons seeking public assistance?
(a) They would have to have a bar code to receive assistance.
(b) They would be given a free tattoo and genetic check when on public assistance.
(c) Their bar code would have to be read each time they came in for their check.
(d) They could not get assistance if they had enough money for a bar code.

14. Who is Amber Thorn?
(a) Kayla's cousin.
(b) Mfumbe's sister.
(c) Kayla's brother's girlfriend.
(d) Kayla's best friend.

15. Why is a particular character in the story residing at the Route Nine Motor Inn?
(a) The person has been evicted from their home.
(b) The person manages the motel.
(c) The person is unemployed.
(d) The person is evading the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Kayla have another vision?

2. What does Ashley tell Kayla to do?

3. What does Kayla ask her counselor about his wrist?

4. How is the killing justified?

5. What does Mfumbe Taylor do when Kayla is still in the stairwell?

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