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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the students at Hailsham allowed to wear on weekends, but not during the week?
(a) Their own clothing.
(b) Make-up.
(c) Team jerseys.
(d) Jewelry.

3. What is a guardian?
(a) The teachers and administrators at Hailsham.
(b) The carers' bosses.
(c) The people who govern the clones.
(d) The head nurses in the donor facilities.

4. 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.

5. Where is the novel set?
(a) England.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) New York.
(d) France.

6. What does the narrator reveal in chapter 10 her topic was for her writing assignment when she first arrived at the Cottages?
(a) Clone rights.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Victorian novels.
(d) Modern American novels.

7. At the end of chapter 4, what does Ruth accuse the narrator of doing all wrong?
(a) Drawing pictures of horses.
(b) Putting their toys away.
(c) Putting her imaginary horses away.
(d) Drawing a hopscotch grid on the sidewalk.

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

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

10. Who first suggested that Madame was frightened of the students at Hailsham?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Laura.
(d) Amanda.

11. What does the narrator say the students used their tokens on?
(a) Video games.
(b) Extra food in the cafeteria.
(c) Presents for parents and relatives.
(d) Clothing and decorations for their desks.

12. In what room was the art displayed for Madame?
(a) An empty dorm room.
(b) The billiards room.
(c) The art room.
(d) The lunch room.

13. What joke do the children at Hailsham make when discussing the electrified fences that often circled the concentration camps during World War II?
(a) That one could commit suicide easily.
(b) That one could suffer a large electric bill that way.
(c) That one could easily commit murder.
(d) That one could fry eggs quite easily.

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

15. What would the narrator often hold while listening to her favorite song, Never Let Me Go?
(a) A baby doll.
(b) A curling iron.
(c) A pillow.
(d) A hairbrush.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the term completion mean when applied to a donor?

3. Who did the narrator once see giving a speech to an imaginary classroom, as described in chapter 4?

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

5. What does Miss Lucy tell the students in chapter 7 they are destined to do?

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