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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does Loreen give Fan to eat in the morning?

2. At the end of Chapter 7, how many days is Sewey sick with a fever?

3. In Chapter 5, how often did everyone over 30 in the Charter villages used to get full-body scans at no charge?

4. In Chapter 11, what was the name of the owners of the Who Falls Inn?

5. In Chapter 5, how many children share a desk at school in B-Mor?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, how did Quig lose his livelihood overnight?

2. How did Joseph die in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 4, how is the area described that Fan first travels through?

4. In Chapter 1, what happened to Reg?

5. In Chapter 8, when was there an interruption in the consumer relationship between B-Mor and the Charters?

6. In Chapter 10, why were Quig and his wife banished from their Charter village?

7. At the end of Chapter 6, what is said about Reg and Fan's relationship and what they did together?

8. What is known about when Fan left B-Mor?

9. Why do Quig and Glynnis ask the innkeepers about buying the inn in Chapter 11?

10. What happens to Fan in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The girls at Miss Cathy’s create murals on the walls of their room. What do these murals portray? What do the murals represent and symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Although Charter residents have good lives with many advantages, their lives are not totally secure. What type of life does Quig and his family have in the Charter village? How do they lose that life? What other instances of Charters being force to live a Charter village are told in the novel? What do those incidents reveal about the precariousness of life?

Essay Topic 3

When people get old and sick, medical care ceases and they are left to die. What seems to be the attitude toward the elderly in B-Mor? What value do the elderly have? Why are the elderly expected to give up their lives? What is revealed about the value of old age in the novel?

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