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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 word does the girl use that no one understands?
(a) Supercilious.
(b) Superfluous.
(c) Suppuration.
(d) Scandalous.

2. Where is Link?
(a) Deceased.
(b) Asleep.
(c) In jail.
(d) In another ward.

3. What do all the teenagers get back at the end of 'Release'?
(a) Their clothes.
(b) Their credits.
(c) Their feeds.
(d) Their sanity.

4. Where do the teenagers go to have fun at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The moon.
(b) Mars.
(c) The arcade.
(d) The moon of Venus.

5. When Loga comes to visit, what does she do as she talks to her friends?
(a) Listens to music and hums along.
(b) Chats to the people back home.
(c) Draws pictures.
(d) Watches a television show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Titus hope Violet can see in the light coming from his brain monitor?

2. What is the first thing Titus feels when he wakes in 'Awake'?

3. What does Titus 'dream' about in 'Nudging'?

4. How does Titus feel about who receives the feed information?

5. What does Link claim is not an organ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the text within these chapters that is in italics. What are they, and what is your impression, thus far, of a feed?

2. Explain the girl's theory of the face grid.

3. When Titus doesn't tell Violet about his friends going mal, he feels he is protecting her from something. Why is he so bothered by their actions?

4. What do you think happened in 'Nudging'? Was Titus dreaming, or were the police or the hacker group sifting through his feed?

5. Describe why the girls help Quendy with her hair, and why Titus finds this important.

6. Titus mentions the lack of need for a picture like the one he sees in the hospital. What does this say about Titus' imagination?

7. Titus mentions they will be offline for a while, so the police can pull off information to use against the hacker. Do you think it would be fair to pull data from a computer in your brain to use, without your express permission?

8. Describe how the teenagers are attacked.

9. Describe how Titus first sees the young woman.

10. Already in the story to this point, it is clear that Titus and Violet are beginning to have a relationship. Describe how the author has already implied this in the novel.

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