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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though citizens of the community make their way around using only bicycles, large deliveries are transported by what type of vehicle?
(a) Boats.
(b) Trucks.
(c) Coal carts.
(d) Trailers.

2. What is the last fully formed memory that Claire has of her final moments in the community?
(a) The back of her son's head as the male Nurturer rides away on the bicycle.
(b) Weeping uncontrollably.
(c) Telling her son goodbye.
(d) Skipping rope with a few of the other Fish Hatchery workers.

3. What item is NOT included in the letter sent to parental units being assigned a Newchild?
(a) Feeding information.
(b) Discipline reminders.
(c) Health data.
(d) Descriptions of personality traits.

4. For what reason does Claire decide not to try to take her son out of the Nurturing Center during her second visit?
(a) She knows she would be exiled for her actions.
(b) She knows she would be killed for her actions.
(c) She notices he has a security bracelet on his ankle.
(d) She does not want to alarm the male Nurturer.

5. How many Newchildren are allowed to be born each year within the community?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 50.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Claire picks up the biology posters from the school, she meets a former teacher of hers. What subject does this woman teach?

2. When Claire sees the male Nurturer on his bicycle, what does she see that gives her hope regarding his continued involvement with her son?

3. How is the right time determined for when each child in the community will begin to take pills?

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

5. Claire and Sophia cannot go into the room housing the youngest Newchildren because what condition is not met?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the consequence of Claire's Task being different from those of the other Birthmothers?

2. What is Claire's son's comfort item and what had hers been during her childhood?

3. Why does Jeanette, one of the Fish Hatchery workers, feel surprise when the name Paul is given to one of the Newchildren at the Ceremony?

4. What does Claire realize during breakfast one day when she sees the other Fish Hatchery workers cleaning up their tables and getting ready to begin work?

5. What criterion does Claire give regarding how the Fish Hatchery had been chosen as her workplace and how does the criterion differ from others who work at the Fish Hatchery alongside her?

6. How is the event of Claire's first encounter with her son portrayed by the author?

7. What reason does Sophia provide for parental units wanting to receive their assigned children once they are a little older, rather than when they are infants?

8. How do the Nurturers respond to Claire's query asking if it would be alright if she visited the Nurturing Center again?

9. Why is Claire so terrified when she is first told that she has been decertified as a Vessel?

10. What is the cause of Dimitri's disappointment at the results of the Ceremony?

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