View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how many people live at Quig's compound?

2. In Chapter 6, what were an older couple caught raising in their basement?

3. What generation member was Reg of the Xi-Jang household?

4. In Chapter 7, how old is Eli, Sewey's best friend?

5. What business did Quig start after he could no longer be a veterinarian?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Eli and what does he look like in Chapter 7?

2. Why does Quig leave the inn alone at the end of Chapter 11?

3. In Chapter 8, what happens in the parks one day in B-Mor and why is that unusual?

4. What happens to Fan in Chapter 4?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, what do the narrators say would happen if the Charters start growing their own products?

6. What was Quig's background?

7. In Chapter 9, why do Quig, Loreen, and Fan take a trip up north?

8. In Chapter 1, who is Fan and what was she like?

9. In Chapter 2, what places do the people in B-Mor have to go during bad weather and what are those places like?

10. In Chapter 7, who lives in Quig's compound and how did they come to live there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although the lives of people in B-Mor are controlled, they are also free to leave at any time. Why is the ability to leave B-Mor only a perceived freedom? When Fan leaves B-Mor, does she find freedom? How is her ability to find freedom hampered by the controlled society in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

On the surface life in B-Mor seems a placid and pleasant place to live. What does life seem to be like in B-Mor? What is life really like there? How are appearances and reality deceiving when it comes to living in B-Mor?

Essay Topic 3

The novel is told from a first-person plural point of view. How does the way that the story is told affect what readers know and think of Fan? How does the point of view create a distance between readers and fan? How does using the first-person plural point of view affect the development of Fan’s story?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 885 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample