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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 one of the things Lina likes about Doon?
(a) That he doesn't interrupt her when she talks.
(b) That he's handsome.
(c) That he's always by himself.
(d) That he's curious.

2. What does the mayor do to try to make his words heard by the crowd gathered for the meeting?
(a) Stands on a roof.
(b) Yells really loudly.
(c) Has a woman shout out his messages.
(d) Uses a megaphone.

3. Who does the chief builder say will keep the instructions for leaving the city?
(a) Lina's grandmother.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The timekeeper.
(d) The chief of the guards.

4. Why does Lina believe the key to the locked door might be in a pan?
(a) A pan is the only hiding place she can find.
(b) She heard the mayor say that's where it would be hidden.
(c) That's where all the people hide their keys.
(d) She thinks that's what the instructions say.

5. What does Lina figure out is the work on the document that ends with "orks"?
(a) Dorks.
(b) Pipeworks.
(c) Forks.
(d) Fireworks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Clary say the guards grab Sadge?

2. Who does Captain Fleery believe will show the people of Ember "the way"?

3. What kind of shop does Lina's grandmother run?

4. Where does Sadge work?

5. What did the seventh mayor die of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the drawing Lina creates on the back of a can label.

2. List at least three of the jobs that are included in the list of jobs given out to Lina, Doon, and their classmates. Briefly described those jobs.

3. What is Lina's Granny's job and what is she doing on the day Lina comes home from work in Chapter 4?

4. Why does Lina decide she can't ask the mayor to come to her house to see the instructions?

5. What are Granny and Poppy doing when Lina gets home from the town meeting?

6. What is Dr. Tower's first reaction when Lina says her Granny is sick and what does she instruct Lina to do once she's seen Granny?

7. What are the other tragedies Lina thinks about as she stays home from work to take care of Granny?

8. Where does Doon go to learn about fire and what are some of the things Doon learns about fire?

9. What does Granny say she saw on her tour of the storerooms as a child and why do children Lina's age not get the opportunity to tour the storerooms?

10. Briefly describe the room Lina shares with Poppy.

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