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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Quietus?
(a) The elderly perform a mass suicide.
(b) Scientists use stem cells to breed a new human race.
(c) Women are injected with questionable fertility drugs.
(d) Rioting by renegades.

2. Xan's large home becomes what in later years?
(a) A church.
(b) A school.
(c) A mental hospital.
(d) A nursing home.

3. What does the Church of England replace the sign of the cross with?
(a) A golden orb.
(b) A flower.
(c) A mother nursing her child.
(d) A lightbulb.

4. How does Theo's father die?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Cancer.
(d) He was murdered.

5. When Miriam buries her brother's ashes, what does she say?
(a) "Pouring the ashes into ground, watching them collapse upon another... it was how I knew what I must do."
(b) "What pain there is in being sent a loved one in the mail, burying them alone, and living to see they've died for nothing."
(c) "He had died for this nation's paranoia, this unnerving fear of what isn't. You must help us, Theo."
(d) "I remember that it was raining and when I poured the white grit into the hole it was as if the whole garden was crying."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Theo tell the Five Fishes he will go after he meets them for the first time?

2. What reoccurring nightmare does Theo have of his father?

3. What museum does Chapter 10 center around?

4. Who points out Felicia's making money out of the former system of criminal prosecution?

5. What does Theo's mother do for extra money during his youth?

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