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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer 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?

2. In Chapter 15, the villagers say the ruins Luke ran from were what?

3. In Chapter 4, Officer Houk has an old woman brought to the town square and tells the crowd the woman is guilty of what?

4. Who is the old man who saves Luke from the Population Police when Luke escapes from the abandoned village?

5. What is Luke's last name in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is established about Luke's past through exposition in Chapter 2?

2. Who does Luke believe may be calling out to him in Chapter 17? What is foreshadowed in this chapter?

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

4. Who do the voices turn out to be that Luke hers in the beginning of Chapter 13? How does he escape?

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

6. What conflicts does Luke face with the boy he meets in Chapter 7? What is Luke's objective?

7. What does Luke perceive about the villagers who help him in Chapter 14? What is their objective?

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

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

10. What thoughts consume the protagonist after his escape from the villagers in Chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the characters of Ricky and Don Everts and the overthrow of the Population Police in the novel. How does the population respond to the news of the political overthrow? Where does Luke meet Ricky and what news does he relate to Luke?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the themes of poverty and hunger in the novel. How are these themes embodied in the villagers that Luke meets? Also discuss the death of the truck driver in Chapter 12. What internal conflict plagues Luke regarding the death of the truck driver? How does this relate to the theme of hunger?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss Luke's history with the Grant family. What caused the Grant family's home to be transformed into the Population Police Headquarters? Where are the Grants now in the novel? What does Luke discover in the former Grant home in Chapter 24? What is foreshadowed in this chapter?

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