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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else happens when someone gets the tattoo?
(a) A microchip is implanted.
(b) A full-body scan.
(c) An iris imprinting.
(d) A blood test.

2. What happens just when Kayla is about to accept being tattooed?
(a) There is a loud crashing noise.
(b) Zekeal arrives.
(c) The patient in the bed next to her dies.
(d) She has a vision.

3. What does Kayla suggest for her and Amber to do?
(a) Drive to Denver.
(b) Find a place to live together.
(c) Find out if the thrift shop will hire Amber.
(d) Drive to Las Vegas.

4. What does Ashley tell Kayla to do?
(a) Join the youth rebellion.
(b) Get the tattoo.
(c) Think very hard before getting the tattoo.
(d) Don't get the tattoo.

5. Based on his genetic profile, what was one medical predisposition Kayla's father had?
(a) Mental illness.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) ALS.
(d) Hodgkin's disease.

6. What is Zekeal reading when Kayla gets to his apartment?
(a) A manual on passive resistance.
(b) Her father's file.
(c) A manual on building Molotov cocktails.
(d) A manual for Tattoo Gen.

7. Where does August suggest the group might meet up if they have to leave their homes?
(a) Cape May.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Lake Placid.
(d) Freeport.

8. Why does Amber ask Kayla to come to where she is staying?
(a) So Amber can introduce Kayla to Amber's good-looking cousin who is visiting.
(b) So Kayla can take Amber to the thrift shop.
(c) So Amber can say goodbye to Kayla.
(d) So Kayla can help Amber with an art project.

9. In what year does Kayla's father die?
(a) 2025.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2054.
(d) 2045.

10. In her vision, where does Kayla see herself?
(a) In a crowd of people headed for a large city.
(b) In the desert.
(c) On top of a bare mountain near the coast.
(d) In an art gallery in Paris.

11. In Chapter 5, what is special about a particular morning when Kayla wakes up?
(a) It is the day her father is supposed to get a promotion.
(b) It is Kayla's seventeenth birthday.
(c) It is the end of the school year.
(d) It is when Kayla is supposed to hear from the art institute.

12. What neighbor of Kayla's is arrested?
(a) The deceased's roommate.
(b) A young, foreign student.
(c) No one.
(d) An elderly man who had been on the lam for years.

13. Why is a particular character in the story residing at the Route Nine Motor Inn?
(a) The person is unemployed.
(b) The person has been evicted from their home.
(c) The person is evading the law.
(d) The person manages the motel.

14. What does Gene think of the tattoos?
(a) They are necessary for crowd control.
(b) They are evil.
(c) They are a means of helping people in distress.
(d) They are a great convenience.

15. Which other person does Kayla know who is in the same situation as the person living in the Motor Inn?
(a) Kayla's father.
(b) Amber's older brother.
(c) Kayla's boyfriend's father.
(d) Kayla's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who works at the place where Amber and Kayla agree to meet?

2. Why is Kayla unlikely to qualify for a scholarship?

3. Why are Amber's parents fighting when Kayla arrives at Amber's house?

4. Where is Kayla Reed at the beginning of the novel?

5. What is one argument against the tattoo?

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