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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. David’s sister believes David recurring dream is about what?
(a) A neighboring settlement.
(b) The Old People who lived before the Tribulation.
(c) Sealand.
(d) Waknuk.

2. Where did David’s grandfather originally come from?
(a) The South.
(b) The West.
(c) The North.
(d) The East.

3. When David is unable to free his friend, to whom does he run for help?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle Axel.

4. Thanks to his friendship with Sophie, David learns what lesson?
(a) A person with a deviation is to be feared.
(b) A person with a deviation is not meant for Waknuk.
(c) A person with a deviation is a danger to society.
(d) A person with a deviation is not a monstrosity.

5. After being punished by his father, David has a nightmare about what?
(a) His father expelling him from Waknuk.
(b) His father dying.
(c) His father being captured by Fringes people.
(d) His father killing Sophie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joseph Strorm punish David for concealing a Blasphemy?

2. When Axel discovers David’s secret, how does he feel?

3. What is the name of David’s cousin?

4. When the inspector comes to speak with David alone, what does he bring with him?

5. David promises Axel that he will no longer do what when communicating with Rosalind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Fringes? What are the Badlands?

2. Who does David meet while playing? What does he learn about this person?

3. What did Axel tell David about the Badlands?

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

5. When Sophie and David tell her parents about the discovery of Sophie's secret, what do they do?

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

7. What does David tell the inspector about why he kept Sophie a secret? What does the inspector say in reply?

8. What do the people of Waknuk believe about the Tribulation?

9. Who is the narrator of the novel? What important facts about him are stated at the opening of the novel?

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

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