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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. What is an Offence?
(a) A deviation in livestock or crops.
(b) A Norm.
(c) A deviation in a person.
(d) A mutant.

2. What area kills anyone who enters there?
(a) The Badlands.
(b) Labrador.
(c) The Fringes.
(d) Wild Country.

3. Before she leaves, what does Sophie give to David?
(a) Her ring.
(b) A photo of herself.
(c) A lock of her hair in a yellow ribbon.
(d) Her favorite book.

4. Ervin is the son of whom?
(a) The inspector.
(b) The Ethics teacher.
(c) The rancher.
(d) The blacksmith.

5. What did his travels teach Axel about the true image?
(a) Nobody really knows what the true image is.
(b) The true image is provable by science.
(c) The true image was written down by the Old People.
(d) The true image is obvious to anyone who follows the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the inspector, who sends Deviations and why?

2. After David leaves Sophie’s home for the first time, David thinks of what “definition”?

3. After being punished by his father, David has a nightmare about what?

4. What happens to David’s new friend as they are playing together?

5. According to these observations, what is happening to the land?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the teachings that every child in Waknuk learns, what is a Norm? What is a Mutant?

2. Why does David get in trouble during the splinter incident?

3. What does Axel discover about David and Rosalind? What does Axel recommend regarding this discovery?

4. What is the name of David’s hometown, and who founded it? What was this person like, and how did he influence the settlement?

5. What are the Black Coasts?

6. What are Offences? What are Blasphemies? Give an example of each.

7. What are the Fringes? What are the Badlands?

8. How is Sophie’s secret discovered? What happens as a result?

9. What is the “Definition of Man” that David was taught as a child? What does he realize when he remembers it?

10. What happened to the Dakers’ cat? What does this tell us about Joseph Strorm?

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