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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Quietus?
(a) Women are injected with questionable fertility drugs.
(b) Rioting by renegades.
(c) The elderly perform a mass suicide.
(d) Scientists use stem cells to breed a new human race.

2. Where is Theo's bedroom in Xan's home?
(a) He shares a room with Xan.
(b) Next to Xan's.
(c) In the servant's quarters.
(d) In the basement.

3. Where is Jasper considering moving to?
(a) Greece.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

4. When Miriam buries her brother's ashes, what does she say?
(a) "I remember that it was raining and when I poured the white grit into the hole it was as if the whole garden was crying."
(b) "He had died for this nation's paranoia, this unnerving fear of what isn't. You must help us, Theo."
(c) "Pouring the ashes into ground, watching them collapse upon another... it was how I knew what I must do."
(d) "What pain there is in being sent a loved one in the mail, burying them alone, and living to see they've died for nothing."

5. Why is Digby afraid of Theo?
(a) Theo threatened him.
(b) He is crazy.
(c) He thinks he recognizes him as someone who attacked him in the street.
(d) He fears he will alert the state that he needs to be taken to the Quietus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Theo expect at the end of his meeting with Xan?

2. Where is Digby from?

3. What is on Hilda's cardigan when Theo visits her home?

4. What does Theo's mother do for extra money during his youth?

5. Where does Theo tell the Five Fishes he will go after he meets them for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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