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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an exchange, as it is explained in chapter 2?
(a) An art exhibition where students both showed their own work and bought other's work.
(b) A social hour at Hailsham where students were encouraged to socialize with students from other schools.
(c) A program in which students would visit other schools in the area.
(d) A program where students at Hailsham are encouraged to trade their favorite storybooks.

2. What work of art did Tommy create as a joke that began his torment from other students, as described in chapter 2?
(a) A palace.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A lion.

3. What does the term completion mean when applied to a donor?
(a) He has too many illnesses to donate.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has gotten too old to donate.
(d) He has given all his organs and placed in a nursing home.

4. What does Laura teach the narrator in chapter 7 in order to discourage boys?
(a) A disgusting way of eating her dessert.
(b) A disgusting way of speaking.
(c) A disgusting way of drinking tea.
(d) A disgusting way of blowing her nose.

5. What excuse did Miss Emily give for the lack of tokens offered in exchange for the art Madame took away?
(a) That it was a great honor to have their art chosen.
(b) That they should just be happy to have a roof over their heads.
(c) That they should be given the tokens, but she did not have extras.
(d) That they should ask someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator hope she might be able to have more time to listen to her favorite music tape?

2. Who calls Tommy an idiot in chapter 1 for not seeing that the boys are going to ignore him while picking players for the sports team?

3. What does the narrator tell the reader in chapter 2 was required of the students at Hailsham once a week?

4. What things in Tommy's behavior does the narrator believe she missed as signs of something that has taken place in chapter 8?

5. Who was Moira B?

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