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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Symbolism.

2. What are third (or beyond) children born to a family known as in the novel and the series?
(a) Extra Children.
(b) Mortal Children.
(c) Shadow Children.
(d) Ghost Children.

3. In Chapter 6, Luke can hear dozens of gun shots, indicating to him that what has happened?
(a) War has broken out.
(b) The Population Police have slaughtered the villagers.
(c) He has been spotted.
(d) Someone has tried to warn him.

4. How many children are the people allowed to have under the laws of the Population Police in the novel?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. In Chapter 7, the boy who grabs Luke is the boy who was assigned to work with him under whom?
(a) Philip Twinings.
(b) Officer Houk.
(c) Aldous Krakenaur.
(d) Oscar Wydell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luke hear as he falls asleep in Chapter 5?

2. What does Luke do when ordered to shoot the old woman in the square in Chapter 4?

3. The boy in Chapter 7 tells Luke the driver left him behind when the villagers did what?

4. Approximately how long have the Population Police been in power in the novel?

5. In Chapter 8, the boy explains to Luke that when he came around the corner to get a new street assignment from Officer Hook, he saw who holding a gun?

(see the answer key)

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