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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 do the green pills do for people?

2. What does Bram offer to the Officials as a sample of Grandfather?

3. Why does Ky not have a microcard?

4. What is Cassia's job?

5. Who is Cassia's Match?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cassia feel about her Match and the image of someone else's face on her micro card?

2. When does Cassia wonder if her Match should really be Ky?

3. Where does Cassia decide to get rid of Grandfather's paper and why is it so risky?

4. What role did Grandfather play in Cassia's life?

5. What is the importance of the Matching system?

6. What are the artifacts that Cassia and Xander carry with them at the beginning of the book?

7. How do Cassia and her parents feel about Xander for her Match?

8. What outdoor activity is Cassia excited to undertake based on stories about nature that her family has told her?

9. What is Cassia's special talent in the Society?

10. What is the premise of "Matched"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Enforced compliance takes on an almost human persona in this book. What were the sources of forced compliance in the story? What is this literary technique called? Cite examples that support this position.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the overall setting for the story. Why does the author use the setting she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Xander and Ky. Both young men are trying to carve out new lives but seem to have different methods and goals. How are Xander and Ky alike? How are they different? On what things do they agree? What is the thing that threatens to separate them? What other similarities and dissimilarities are there between the two characters?

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