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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what point in her donation cycle did Chrissie die?
(a) After the third.
(b) After the fourth.
(c) After the second.
(d) After the first.

2. Who appears out of the darkness of the room at the end of chapter 21?
(a) Miss Lucy.
(b) Miss Jody.
(c) Miss Emily.
(d) Miss Geraldine.

3. What does Ruth want to do after being run off from the office where her possible works in chapter 14?
(a) She wants to forget the whole episode.
(b) She wants to confront the woman.
(c) She wants to go home.
(d) She wants to go back.

4. Who suggests in chapter 18 that the narrator become Ruth's carer?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Laura.

5. What is the one thing the narrator notices most about the drawings Tommy shows her in chapter 15?
(a) The originality.
(b) The oddness of them.
(c) The childishness of them.
(d) The details.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 15, why does Tommy tell Kathy he wanted to find the Judy Bridgewater tape for her?

2. Why does there seem to be a different set of rules for the clones from Hailsham as compared to the clones from other backgrounds?

3. Who claims to not recall learning about deferrals at Hailsham in chapter 13?

4. Why do Rodney and Chrissie believe the students from Hailsham might know about deferrals?

5. What are dream futures, as the narrator describes in chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 18, how does Kathy learn that Ruth has begun her donations?

2. In chapter 21, what does Tommy tell Madame he has come to her to ask for?

3. In chapter 16, what does Kathy tell the reader she had thought she and Tommy might do after the trip to Norfolk, but never did?

4. In chapter 20, who does Kathy find at the address Ruth gave to Tommy for him to seek a deferral?

5. In chapter 13, Rodney and Chrissie ask Ruth, Tommy, and Kathy about what type of deferment?

6. Why does Kathy constantly allow Ruth to indulge her fantasies even when she knows she is wrong?

7. At the end of chapter 17, how does Kathy actively change her situation?

8. In chapter 13, what excuse does Ruth give to Rodney and Chrissie for Tommy's refusal to agree that there is a deferment program for lovers?

9. How does Ruth react to the sight of her possible? How does she, and the others, come to believe this woman could not be her possible?

10. In chapter 16, Ruth becomes annoyed with Kathy and forces her to say that she thinks Tommy's drawings are childish, something Ruth later tells Tommy. What causes this change in Ruth's feelings toward Kathy and Tommy?

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