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

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

3. Who destroyed the old identity cards leading to the overthrow of the government in the novel?
(a) Eli.
(b) Jen.
(c) Nina.
(d) Luke.

4. Who is the man that steps forward to take responsibility for overthrowing the Population Police in Chapter 23?
(a) Philip Twinings.
(b) Oscar Wydell.
(c) Ricky Everts.
(d) Aldous Krakenaur.

5. Whose voice does Luke hear in his head encouraging him to go to the stage in Chapter 29?
(a) Don's.
(b) Nina's.
(c) Eli's.
(d) Jen's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stands to protect Luke as he stands on stage in Chapter 32?

2. In Chapter 19, who pulls his truck out of the garage and people crowd into the cab and the bed of the truck?

3. In Chapter 29, Luke realizes that Oscar will use whatever is to his benefit to do what?

4. In Chapter 27, Luke sits where watching the newscaster on stage interviewing people?

5. What term was coined by the psychologist Erik Erikson as the failure to achieve ego identity during adolescence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Luke recognize being interviewed on the news in Chapter 23? Where does he know this person from?

2. What internal struggle does the protagonist face in Chapter 23? How does he feel about the changing government?

3. What fears and internal conflicts does the protagonist face in Chapter 19? Why?

4. How does the protagonist recall the Grant family in Chapter 24? Where is Luke located?

5. What does Luke discover about the relationship between Aldous and Oscar in Chapter 26?

6. How is the dichotomy of Oscar illustrated in Chapter 25? What is foreshadowed in the chapter?

7. What moral message does Luke realize in the denouement of the narrative in Chapter 33?

8. What does Luke do in the horse stables in Chapter 21? What interaction does he have with Jenny?

9. Who comes to join Luke in tearing down the signs in Chapter 33? What signs of hope does Luke point out?

10. What do the horse stables represent to Luke? How is this explored in Chapter 21?

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