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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the reader in chapter 2 was required of the students at Hailsham once a week?
(a) An IQ test.
(b) An art exam.
(c) A drug screening.
(d) A medical exam.

2. Why is the narrator reluctant to sit beside Tommy in chapter 3 when they meet at the pond?
(a) She does not want to get her pants wet.
(b) She does not want to let Tommy know how she feels about him.
(c) She does not want anyone to observe them and think they are up to something wrong.
(d) She does not want to give Tommy the wrong impression.

3. What is Bramble, as described in chapter 4?
(a) A donkey.
(b) An imaginary cow.
(c) An imaginary horse.
(d) A dog.

4. Where at Hailsham, as the narrator describes in chapter 2, was the best place to have a private talk?
(a) The lunch queue.
(b) The art room.
(c) The music room.
(d) The dorm bathrooms.

5. What is the point of view of this novel?
(a) Limited omniscient.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Second person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the donor in the narrator's third year grow up, causing her to recall her own childhood at Hailsham?

2. What does Tommy tell the narrator that he thinks Miss Lucy feels the students are not being taught properly?

3. What are Sales?

4. Why did the students feel Madame was different, odd?

5. What does the narrator say the students used their tokens on?

(see the answer key)

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