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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Axel, what is the cause of the bad season?
(a) A bad winter with winds from the southwest.
(b) The Badlands spreading.
(c) People memorizing Nicholson’s Repentances.
(d) Slackness regarding Purity standards.

2. When Sally transmits to the group, what does she inform them?
(a) The investigators do not believe in telepathy.
(b) Katherine and Sally have managed to escape.
(c) The investigators have broken Katherine and made her confess.
(d) The investigators have found nothing and plan to let them go.

3. What stands in the way of David and Rosalind marrying?
(a) The feud between their families.
(b) The fact that David wanted to marry Katherine.
(c) The fact that Axel warned it was a bad idea.
(d) The fact that Rosalind vowed never to marry.

4. What does Axel think about Anne’s impeding marriage?
(a) Axel thinks the marriage is a good idea.
(b) Axel believes David and the others are making a big deal over nothing.
(c) Axel agrees the marriage is a bad idea.
(d) Axel believes Anne should tell everyone the truth about her ability.

5. How do Sally and Katherine act after being taken?
(a) Angry and belligerent.
(b) Innocent and bewildered.
(c) Sad and mournful.
(d) Excited and happy.

6. Old Jacob tells David that the only way to cleanse deviations, even those in people, is to do what?
(a) Burn them.
(b) Pray over them.
(c) Exile them.
(d) Cure them with medicine.

7. As the runaways move deeper into Wild Country, what decision are David and Rosalind unable to make without Michael’s guidance?
(a) Whether or not to fight the search party.
(b) Whether or not to change direction.
(c) Whether or not to get rid of the great-horses.
(d) Whether or not to turn back.

8. What makes Jerome Skinner suspicious?
(a) He does not believe the group is free of deviations.
(b) He does not believe Sally and Katherine could have heard Petra screaming.
(c) He does not believe David and Petra are siblings.
(d) He does not believe Petra was attacked by a beast.

9. What has changed between David and Rosalind?
(a) They are both in love with norms.
(b) They are too busy to see one another.
(c) They are in love.
(d) They no longer speak to one another.

10. A newborn is not formally announced until who approves the baby?
(a) The head of the patrol.
(b) The inspector.
(c) The local tax collector.
(d) The magistrate.

11. Shortly after Petra’s birth, who comes to visit?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Helen.
(c) Hope.
(d) Harriet.

12. According to Axel, what was the name of the ninth telepathic?
(a) Wright Brett.
(b) Winston Black.
(c) William Brown.
(d) Walter Brent.

13. David, Petra, and Rosalind flee in which direction?
(a) Northwest.
(b) Southeast.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northeast.

14. According to Michael, why are the authorities particularly determined to capture the runaways, instead of just letting them escape into the Fringes?
(a) Because the authorities want to send them overseas.
(b) Because the authorities are upset there was no sign the telepathics were different.
(c) Because the authorities want to learn how to become telepathic themselves.
(d) Because the authorities want to torture them.

15. Who are the telepathic sisters David communicates with?
(a) Sally and Katherine.
(b) Anne and Sally.
(c) Katherine and Rachel.
(d) Anne and Rachel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two forbidden things does Petra do at the beginning of Chapter 11?

2. The woman from Sealand emphasizes the importance of whom?

3. When Katherine transmits to the group, how does David describe her thoughts?

4. After learning of the end of Anne’s marriage, what is Michael’s advice to the group?

5. What event ends Anne’s marriage?

(see the answer keys)

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