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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. While sitting on the attic step, after how many weeks does Luke finally give up trying to keep up with his family's conversation at meal times?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One week.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

2. What did Luke's mother and father see on TV while pregnant that scared them?
(a) Stories of what the Population Police does to pregnant women.
(b) Ads advertising the reward for turning in people who have more than two children.
(c) The Government's ads talking about how the Population Police would do anything to enforce the law.
(d) Pictures of what the Population Police does to third babies.

3. What does Luke get up at dawn to watch every morning?
(a) The sun rise.
(b) The animals out his window.
(c) His family eat breakfast.
(d) The work on the new houses.

4. What has Luke been taught all his life to fear?
(a) Open spaces.
(b) Adults.
(c) Other children.
(d) Dogs.

5. Since the woods near his home were torn down, how many months has Luke been trapped inside his house?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dad say is the reason for the tax increase on their property?

2. What does Luke yell out in a panic to the girl whose house he has just broke into?

3. What does Luke notice first as he makes his way outside to sneak over to the third child's house?

4. What does the girl, whose house Luke broke into, do while she talks on the phone to her dad?

5. Why is Luke afraid he will never be allowed outside again?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Luke do all day to help pass the time?

2. Who are the Barons?

3. Even though his family has a startling lack of empathy for his position, how does Luke show his empathy in Chapter 7?

4. How does the author grab the reader's attention right away at the beginning of the book?

5. What does Luke realize about his home as he prepares to sprint over to the Sport's Family's house?

6. What does Luke's mom do when they hear tires on the gravel driveway in Chapter 1?

7. What happens when Luke comes upon the girl in the Sport's Family's house?

8. What does Luke see while looking out his attic vents in Chapter 8?

9. What does Luke realize about being an illegal third child?

10. How different is Luke's family from Jen's Family?

(see the answer keys)

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