View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concern has Tommy admitted to the narrator he has for the creatures in his drawings?
(a) How they will be kept safe.
(b) How they might catch food.
(c) How they can reach and fetch things.
(d) How they will keep warm.

2. How much older than the clone is suspected a possible would be as described in chapter 12?
(a) As much as ninety years.
(b) Twenty to thirty years.
(c) Forty to fifty years.
(d) Five to ten years.

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

4. In chapter 15, why does Tommy tell Kathy he wanted to find the Judy Bridgewater tape for her?
(a) He saw the guardians take it from her room.
(b) He knew Ruth stole it in the first place.
(c) He stole it in the first place.
(d) He imagined it over and over when it first went missing.

5. What lie has Ruth told Chrissie that Tommy nearly blows for her in chapter 13?
(a) That a Hailsham student became a bookkeeper.
(b) That a Hailsham student became a barrister.
(c) That a Hailsham student became a park keeper.
(d) That a Hailsham student became a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madame keep repeating as Tommy and Kathy speak to her in chapter 21?

2. In chapter 15, why does the narrator tell Tommy she often looks at models in magazines?

3. What kind of drawings does the narrator find Tommy making in chapter 20?

4. In chapter 16, who was the first of the Hailsham students to begin their carer training?

5. In chapter 14, who does Ruth tell Chrissie she would need to contact if she wanted a deferral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth admit to Kathy in chapter 19 that she believes should have happened in their past and that she actively attempted to prevent?

2. How has Kathy's life changed in the year that has passed between chapters 19 and 20?

3. 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?

4. In chapter 15, Tommy reveals to Kathy that he had been searching for what in Woolworth's?

5. In chapter 18, how does Kathy become Ruth's carer? How does Ruth react to this?

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

7. What does Kathy decide not to tell Ruth at the end of chapter 15?

8. What has Tommy begun to draw after the trip to Norfolk? What does Kathy initially think of these drawings?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 873 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample