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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. What does Dr. Upendra do after eating dinner in Chapter 20?

2. In Chapter 15, how old is one of the elders when he mixes up people's names and confuses words?

3. In Chapter 23, what do the narrators say happened after a second boomlet in their population?

4. In Chapter 23, what percent do B-Mor children have to test for promotion to a Charter?

5. In Chapter 21, how long is Vik gone before he comes back and suggests that he and Fan go to a fun weekend place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Vik take Fan in Chapter 21 and what is the place like?

2. In Chapter 14 what does Mister Leo look like?

3. At the end of Chapter 17, what do the girls decide that they need to do?

4. In Chapter 16, what is it like for Fan at first after Quig and Loreen leave her with Miss Cathy?

5. At the end of Chapter 19, what is Five's condition?

6. What are the girls like that Fan meets at the end of Chapter 16 and who are they?

7. In Chapter 13, how do B-Mor residents get a chance to live in a Charter village, and who had that opportunity?

8. In Chapter 18, what happens when Three asks Miss Cathy for Fan's release?

9. In Chapter 16, what is Mister Leo's condition?

10. In Chapter 21, what is the fitness center like at Vik's condo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Quig decides to use Fan to barter for the digging equipment and medicine that he needs. Why does Quig make the decision to use Fan as barter? How does the way that Quig treats Fan after that decision seem to reveal about the emotions he feels about bartering her? Do his actions seem to reflect guilt?

Essay Topic 2

Oliver decides to rebuild in the B-Mor style. What seems to motivate him to want to have his structures resemble B-Mor homes? What does that reveal about the way that Oliver has adjusted to Charter life? What does that reveal about his character?

Essay Topic 3

There is a very strict class structure in the communities in the novel. What does Fan’s departure from B-Mor reveal about the ability to move from one community to another? Would Fan have been allowed to just walk into a Charter village and settle there? How rigid is the class structure in the novel? How does the class structure affect life in the novel?

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