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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two: Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jeanette mentions that everyone liked her father, she says he had been quiet, but what?
(a) Accommodating.
(b) Nice.
(c) Forceful.
(d) Compliant.

2. What does Claire do with the signalling rock before she throws it down to Einar?
(a) She wipes the blood from its surface.
(b) She kisses it.
(c) She breaks it in half.
(d) She writes a love note on it.

3. How is the right time determined for when each child in the community will begin to take pills?
(a) Children start taking pills once a doctor confirms they have entered puberty.
(b) Parents apply to a committee and are provided with a date for pills to be started.
(c) Children are given a questionnaire that determines the day when they start to take pills.
(d) Parents observe their children and decide when the time has come.

4. What object does Claire use for her stair-stepping exercises?
(a) Alys's porch.
(b) A rock.
(c) A log.
(d) A stump.

5. What reason does Claire give Alys for why her community had chosen to eradicate feelings of love in its citizens?
(a) Because they believed to do so fixed many ills.
(b) Because they believed to do so would make the citizens easier to control.
(c) Because they believed to do so would simplify everyone's lives.
(d) Because they believed to do so would please Trademaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose house do the villagers take Claire when they have pulled her from the water?

2. What quality of the villagers' discovery of Claire is one they have never experienced before?

3. How old had Old Benedikt and Alys been the first time they danced?

4. When Claire sees the male Nurturer out on his bicycle, how many months has it been since they have seen one another?

5. What does Claire name the bird brought to her by Einar?

(see the answer key)

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