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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Theo tell the Five Fishes he will go after he meets them for the first time?
(a) St. Margaret's Church.
(b) Quietus.
(c) The Sojourners' headquarters.
(d) The Isle of Man.

2. Why are more and more people moving into cities?
(a) The only jobs left are in the cities.
(b) Company and services.
(c) Fear of gypsies in the country.
(d) Cheaper housing, as rural areas become expensive to maintain.

3. When Miriam buries her brother's ashes, what does she say?
(a) "He had died for this nation's paranoia, this unnerving fear of what isn't. You must help us, Theo."
(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) "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."
(d) "Pouring the ashes into ground, watching them collapse upon another... it was how I knew what I must do."

4. Xan and Theo are both named after whom?
(a) Forefathers.
(b) Biblical figures.
(c) Authors.
(d) Uncles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on Hilda's cardigan when Theo visits her home?

2. Why does the priest demand that Theo leave the church before eleven?

3. How does Theo's father die?

4. Who does Theo's wife leave him for?

5. Who are the Grenadiers?

(see the answer key)

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