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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 let Tommy know how she feels about him.
(b) She does not want to give Tommy the wrong impression.
(c) She does not want to get her pants wet.
(d) She does not want anyone to observe them and think they are up to something wrong.

3. What does Ruth give the narrator in chapter 6 to replace her lost tape?
(a) A few tokens.
(b) A new hand mirror.
(c) A new tape of ballroom dancing music.
(d) A baby doll.

4. What is the woods?
(a) A room where the students study horticulture.
(b) A hall at Hailsham that is decorated with trees.
(c) A mural on the wall of Hailsham's cafeteria.
(d) A wooded area around Hailsham.

5. What are the ages of the Junior classes at Hailsham?
(a) Seven through eleven.
(b) Birth to twelve.
(c) Five through eight.
(d) Fifteen to seventeen.

6. Why did the narrator believe Ruth to be a good chess player?
(a) Ruth said she was.
(b) Ruth often voiced a desire to play the game.
(c) Ruth had a collection of books on the subject.
(d) Ruth often commented on chess games in progress.

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

8. What is the name of the narrating character?
(a) Ruth S.
(b) Kathy H.
(c) Mitchell F.
(d) Horace G.

9. What did Kathy see Miss Lucy doing in a quiet classroom at the beginning of chapter 8?
(a) Creating a new type of art.
(b) Scribbling over students' homework.
(c) Blacking out lines on unknown papers.
(d) Encouraging Tommy to create more art.

10. When does the narrator hope she might be able to have more time to listen to her favorite music tape?
(a) When she stops being a carer.
(b) When she retires from her bookkeeping job.
(c) When she settles down to have a family.
(d) When she leave college.

11. Whose behavior does the narrator accuse Ruth of copying at the end of chapter 10?
(a) Charles and Diana.
(b) Johnny and Laura.
(c) Rodney and Chrissie.
(d) Harry and Cynthia.

12. What warning does Miss Emily offer the students in chapter 7 about having sex with people in the outside world?
(a) That it was more emotional for those who could have children.
(b) That it could be fun.
(c) That it was something they physically could not do.
(d) That it could keep them from having to make donations.

13. In chapter 11, what does the narrator define courses as?
(a) Training to be a vet.
(b) Training to be a nurse.
(c) Training to be a donor.
(d) Training to be a carer.

14. How long does narrator say Miss Geraldine told her Madame has been coming to their school?
(a) Only a few months.
(b) For several years.
(c) Since it opened.
(d) For twenty years.

15. Who asks Tommy to get back into his art in chapter 9?
(a) Miss Emily.
(b) Laura.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Miss Lucy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are tokens?

2. In whose room does Tommy admit in chapter 11 that he saw the narrator looking at similar magazines as the ones he finds her looking at in the boiler room in chapter 11?

3. What was the Cottages before it became a halfway house for clones?

4. How old was the narrator when she first recalls making friends with Ruth?

5. What trip does the narrator foreshadow at the end of chapter 11?

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