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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who decides to comfort Tommy at the end of chapter 1 during his temper tantrum?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Laura.

3. What things in Tommy's behavior does the narrator believe she missed as signs of something that has taken place in chapter 8?
(a) He begins fighting with the other boys.
(b) He becomes distracted and angry again.
(c) He begins dating many other girls.
(d) He breaks off their friendship.

4. Why was the narrator kicked out of the secret guard?
(a) She did not collect her evidence properly.
(b) She gave away guard secrets.
(c) She allowed Miss Geraldine to be injured.
(d) She had a fight with Ruth.

5. 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) Encouraging Tommy to create more art.
(c) Blacking out lines on unknown papers.
(d) Scribbling over students' homework.

6. What happened in chapter 6 to the tape the narrator hid in her dorm room that contained her favorite song?
(a) It was lost.
(b) It was broken.
(c) It was stolen.
(d) It was garbled in the tape machine.

7. 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?
(a) Laura's.
(b) Charley's.
(c) Harry's.
(d) Claire's.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What rumors abound at Hailsham about students who wander into the woods?
(a) They are murdered.
(b) They are forced to do extra homework.
(c) They are made to volunteer to cook lunch.
(d) They are forced to add to the mural on the wall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the secret guard ended did Ruth appear in class with a pencil case?

2. Who makes fun of Tommy's expressions as he warms up on the sports field with the other boys in chapter 1?

3. Who asks Tommy to get back into his art in chapter 9?

4. Who plots to prove Madame's fear of the students at Hailsham?

5. Who was often blamed, as mentioned in chapter 11, for all the pornographic magazines discovered at the Cottages?

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