View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?
(a) It was an artificial memory the narrator made up.
(b) It was an artificial memory the Professor made up.
(c) It was a real memory coming back from his core consciousness.
(d) It was the shadow of a memory from before the shuffle.

2. What does the narrator make of the librarian's appetite at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) He thinks it's a little disgusting.
(b) He isn't surprised, given her frame.
(c) He doesn't understand why women always seem to be on a diet.
(d) He is worried she doesn't spend enough money on food.

3. What does the Librarian serve at the end of each session?
(a) Soup.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Cake.
(d) Tea.

4. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?
(a) Carefree.
(b) Oblivious.
(c) Young.
(d) Normal.

5. Where does the narrator find the Pool?
(a) In the South.
(b) In the North.
(c) In the East.
(d) In the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does the narrator belong to in Chapter 3?

2. What does the Gatekeeper tell the narrator about the Power Station?

3. How does the narrator get home from the old man's office at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. What does the Gatekeeper say about the stash of old clothes?

5. The skull from which the narrator is supposed to read the first dream in Chapter 6 is from what animal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the beasts' death in Chapter 20?

2. Describe the Collection Room.

3. Which unusual things have you noticed about the Town as described in Chapter 4?

4. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.

5. Explain where the narrator is at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what he spends his time doing.

6. What does the Gatekeeper have to say about the fact that the narrator got lost in the Woods and fell ill?

7. Why does the Professor say in Chapter 25 that he gave the narrator the data to shuffle with the terminal program?

8. Explain the narrator's reaction to the skull the Professor gives him as a gift.

9. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?

10. What do you know about the narrator's job based on your reading of Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,294 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample