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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 23, what does Fan say that Liwei means?

2. In Chapter 22, what drink does Oliver serve to his guests?

3. In Chapter 20, what does Miss Cathy do when she sees Five in distress and the medical personnel around her?

4. In Chapter 17, which girl always leads the exercise sessions before Fan arrives?

5. In Chapter 15, what do the narrators see Gordon doing in the middle of the night when they get up for water?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Vik take Fan in Chapter 22, and what does Fan discover there?

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

4. From where do Oliver and Betty direct the building projects and how do they orchestrate everything in Chapter 24?

5. What do the narrators comment on happening with more frequency in Chapter 15?

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

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

8. In Chapter 18, what happens to Four and Five and what is the recommendation to help them?

9. In Chapter 23, what meeting is held in West B-Mor and why?

10. In Chapter 20, what happened after Five nearly dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The girls at Miss Cathy’s decide to help Fan. Do the girls know how their decision to help Fan might affect their lives? What sacrifices do the girls make to try to help Fan? How do those sacrifices affect their lives?

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

B-Mor is a community that is isolated, but seems to provide everything that its inhabitants need. How is B-Mor revealed as an ideal place to live? How do the narrators make B-Mor seem to be an ideal place to live at the beginning of the novel? How does the contrast of never being able to leave, but being a good place to leave affect the narrative?

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