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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 8, what food has Reg never eaten?

2. In Chapter 2, when were the sewers in the open counties created?

3. At the end of Chapter 2, what was the name of the city that the narrator's people came from?

4. How many boxes of soy milk does Sewey give Fan in Chapter 5?

5. In Chapter 9, what were two brothers traded for in Quig's compound?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 12, why does Fan have to hurt a little girl?

2. In Chapter 5, why must ex-Charter residents live in the open counties rather than a place like B-Mor?

3. Toward the end of Chapter 9, why does Quig swerve on the road, and how does he explain what happened to Loreen?

4. What did Quig do in a Charter village and why did he have to leave?

5. How is the landscape outside the compound in Chapter 7 different from what Fan expects?

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

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

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

9. At the end of Chapter 4, what happens after Fan makes a mess in the storage closet where she is put after arriving at Quig's place?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fan adapts to life in Quig’s compound. How is Fan conditioned to adapt to her surroundings? How does Fan adjust to life in the compound? What does her adjustment reveal about adaptability and conditioning?

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

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?

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