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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mayor Cole hold in his hand when he arrives in the classroom for Assignment Day?
2. What does Dr. Tower have in her hands when she tells Lina that her mother died?
3. Why does Lina believe the key to the locked door might be in a pan?
4. How much does the man say he is charging for his colored pencils?
5. How long does the chief builder say the people of Ember must stay in the city?
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 the message the mayor gives during the town hall meeting in chapter six and what it the reaction of the people to his message?
4. What is Assignment Day and how are assignments given?
5. Describe what lies beyond the light from Ember and what people know about that area.
6. Why does Lina want to be a messenger and why does Doon want to work in the Pipeworks?
7. What are the other tragedies Lina thinks about as she stays home from work to take care of Granny?
8. 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?
9. What are Granny and Poppy doing when Lina gets home from the town meeting?
10. Why does Lina decide she can't ask the mayor to come to her house to see the instructions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some of the problems in Ember the year Doon and Lina turn twelve? How are these problems being addressed? What are the reactions of the people to these problems?
Essay Topic 2
What happens each time the lights go off in the city of Ember? What happens when the lights go off on the day Lina is buying the pencils? What does Lina fear will someday happen when the lights go off? Why do the lights go off?
Essay Topic 3
What is the most important setting of the book? Why do you consider this an important setting? Fully describe the setting.
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