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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In literature, what is the central topic, subject, or concept addressed in a story?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Theme.
(c) Action.
(d) Objective.

2. What arise from obstacles located outside the protagonist including nature, the supernatural, or society?
(a) Impulsive conflicts.
(b) External conflicts.
(c) Inner conflicts.
(d) Relational conflicts.

3. What is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Plot.
(d) Pathos.

4. What does the boy in Chapter 9 claim to have done when threatened by the villagers?
(a) Found Luke.
(b) Saved the old woman.
(c) Shot Officer Houk.
(d) Killed Luke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picked up the gun that was dropped, according to the boy's story to Luke in Chapter 8?

2. In Chapter 3, when the jeep arrives in Chiutza, the officer assigns each boy and the driver a street to tell the residents to be in the town square by what time?

3. How old is Luke in the beginning of the novel?

4. Whose voice does Luke hear calling to him to get up and do something in Chapter 11?

5. What refers to the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner?

(see the answer key)

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