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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. Where does Amy run to when she sees what is happening to Brian?

2. From Amy's letter, what does she believe about Brian's conversation with the Monitor supervisors?

3. Where did Rolph learn about the surface world?

4. What does Mr. Regis say governs whether people have a pleasant day or not?

5. When the Monitors suggest that Brian inform on Amy in order to save himself, what does he do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Slough?

2. What puzzles Brian about the air, water, electricity, and food that they use in the underground community?

3. What does Rolph suggest are some possible reasons for their community being put underground?

4. Who is Edgar Spengler, and what items does he give Brian?

5. When Brian is looking for Amy in Dining, who finds Brian, and what do they want from him?

6. After the funeral, what conflicting feelings does Brian have about his relationship with Amy and Law 6?

7. After finding out what Brian knows, what choice do the Monitors give him, and what decision does he make?

8. When Brian goes to look for Amy in Dining, what does he think when he sees Jim, and why?

9. What important information does Brian learn from Rolph's letter?

10. What does Mr. Regis say during the funeral for the workers who have been killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider this quote from page 27:

Honestly, I am filled with hope. What new life might we begin, free of the bothersome prospect of being Visited? Dedicated to some new task, some fresh way of being? Who might we become, sans roles, free to redecorate and un-theme this spacious home of ours? What might come to interest us? Toward what might we redirect our considerable, until now misspent, energy?

Write an essay in which you consider how this quote characterizes Brian, given the information he has already shared about the "Slough." Use textual evidence to support your assertions.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that compares and contrasts the characterization of Brian with the characterization of Amy. Offer textual evidence to support your assertions.

Essay Topic 3

On pages 33 and 34, Brian says that his intention is to copy and distribute the letters and his own story "so that all may know the truth and be moved to ask, perhaps in some quiet moment, Is this world that we have made (which, for the soundest of reasons, we made, along the way, quite harsh) a world in which lovers may thrive?" Write an essay that explores the meaning of this quote within the context of the story as a whole. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

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