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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Luke never done before in Chapter 30?
(a) Spoken aloud.
(b) Flown a kite.
(c) Wept openly.
(d) Ridden a horse.

2. In Chapter 21, Luke moves through the crowd and away from all of the chaos where?
(a) Under a tree.
(b) In a barn.
(c) Into a garden.
(d) Behind a rock.

3. What is the area at the Population Police Headquarters where the TV interviews take place over the few days that Luke is there?
(a) The press room.
(b) The stage.
(c) The theatre.
(d) The shooting range.

4. Where does Luke go to sleep in Chapter 28?
(a) The stables.
(b) The church.
(c) The abandoned village.
(d) The cave.

5. In Chapter 22, Luke makes his way to the building where the food is and just finds what on the counter?
(a) Bread.
(b) Soup.
(c) Fish.
(d) Fruit.

6. In Chapter 28, a couple of people being interviewed declare it is the fault of whom that the people were starving?
(a) The stray animals.
(b) Third children.
(c) The church.
(d) The president.

7. Oscar Wydell is trying to locate the location of what in Chapter 25?
(a) War charts.
(b) Food storage.
(c) Ammunition.
(d) Animal storage.

8. What refers to a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Totalitarianism.
(d) Unitarianism.

9. In Chapter 25, Luke crawls to hide behind what as someone enters the secret room?
(a) The signs.
(b) A computer.
(c) A desk.
(d) A radiator.

10. In Chapter 32, Luke tells the whole story of his life, up until the time he arrived where?
(a) Chiutza.
(b) The Grant family's home.
(c) His grandfather's house.
(d) The Population Police Headquarters.

11. How many novels comprise the Shadow Children series?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 14.

12. When was Margaret Peterson Haddix born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1973.

13. Luke declares publicly that he is what in Chapter 31?
(a) Outraged.
(b) Selling the horse.
(c) Against the new government.
(d) A third child.

14. Who decides to join the crowd heading to the Population Police Headquarters at the last minute in Chapter 19?
(a) Don's wife.
(b) James's wife.
(c) Mark's wife.
(d) Ricky's wife.

15. In Chapter 25, Luke hears someone escorting __________ into the room as he lies in hiding?
(a) Philip Twinings.
(b) Oscar Wydell.
(c) Melton.
(d) Aldous Krakenaur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative?

2. What point in the plot marks a change, for the better or the worse, in the protagonist's affairs?

3. When Luke goes to tend to the horses, he sees that none of them have been fed since the Population Police deserted the area how long ago in Chapter 21?

4. What is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of components or resources?

5. In Chapter 21, as Luke makes his way through the crowd in front of the Population Police Headquarters, he sees people doing what?

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