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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Plot.
(d) Foreshadowing.

2. In Chapter 15, Luke and the village people eat in celebration of what?
(a) Eli's birthday.
(b) The death of Officer Houk.
(c) Living another day.
(d) Their independence.

3. What are incompatibilities in how two or more individuals relate to one another?
(a) External conflicts.
(b) Impulsive conflicts.
(c) Inner conflicts.
(d) Relational conflicts.

4. Whose voice does Luke hear calling to him to get up and do something in Chapter 11?
(a) Officer Houk's.
(b) Aldous Krakenaur's.
(c) Eli's.
(d) Jen's.

5. In Chapter 17, a hand clamps down on Luke's wrists and a voice asks him why he isn't doing what like everyone else?
(a) More alert.
(b) Inside watching.
(c) Praying.
(d) Hiding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Eli's daughter in the novel?

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

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?

4. According to the villagers in Chapter 15, the Population Police made them grow what crops?

5. How does Luke injure himself upon awakening in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the villagers who saved Luke tell him about their past with the Population Police in Chapter 15?

2. How has the mindset of the population begun to evolve in Chapter 13? Why?

3. How does Luke perceive Eli and the other villagers in Chapter 16? How does his perception change in the chapter?

4. What character is revisited by the protagonist in Chapter 7? Where does this character take Luke?

5. How does Luke help the boy he meets in the village in Chapter 9?

6. Why does Luke decide to go to the Population Police Headquarters in Chapter 18? Who accompanies him?

7. What does the boy in Chapter 8 tell Luke happened after he escaped from Officer Houk?

8. Where does Luke go after escaping danger in Chapter 10? Where does he find shelter?

9. Whose memory drives the protagonist toward his goals in the narrative? How does this character propel Luke in Chapter 6?

10. Where does the boy take Luke in Chapter 18? What news does Luke discover?

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