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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. What color are Claire's eyes?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

2. How many rocks does Einar have Claire add to her sack each day before she runs the hillside path?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

3. What age group is the only group to be given their assignments on the second day of the Ceremony?
(a) Twelves.
(b) Tens.
(c) Nines.
(d) Elevens.

4. Where does Claire's son sleep when the male Nurturer takes him home at night?
(a) On the patio.
(b) In the room of the male Nurturer's son.
(c) In the room of the male Nurturer and his wife.
(d) In the bathtub.

5. Whose death provides Claire with a lesson about mortality before the death of Tall Andras's mother?
(a) An old fisherman who dies in his sleep.
(b) Einar.
(c) Bryn.
(d) Old Benedikt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though citizens of the community make their way around using only bicycles, large deliveries are transported by what type of vehicle?

2. What assignments are announced during the Twelves's part of the Ceremony?

3. What occasion had prompted the community to perform the Ceremony of Loss a few years before the events of the narrative?

4. What problem does the male Nurturer say is still plaguing Claire's son, endangering the possibility of his being assigned to a parental unit?

5. When Jeanette mentions that everyone liked her father, she says he had been quiet, but what?

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