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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 is Lina carrying when she joins Doon at the entrance of the Pipeworks?

2. What does Lizzie say is in her sack?

3. Who was at the entrance to the Pipeworks when Doon reaches it?

4. Who is second-in-command after the mayor?

5. Who is the first to get into the boat once it's in the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Doon and Lina figure out how the matches work?

2. What does Clary say about everyone having darkness inside them and why does Lina know Clary is right?

3. How do Doon and Lina find the path that leads up from the river?

4. What do Doon and Lina discover is the sixth step of the instructions?

5. What does Lina think about with regard to being "alone in the world" on her first day back at work after her Granny's death/

6. What is the first sight that meets the children when they emerge from the tunnel?

7. Why does the writer say the adults have to cut all ties with their families and take no books or photographs, and why are there so many babies?

8. What is the message from the notice on the wall at the beginning of the path?

9. Describe what and who Doon finds when he opens the door in the tunnel.

10. Where does Lizzie first tell Lina she got the canned items and what does she eventually reveal as the truth?

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 do people believe exists outside the lights of Ember? How do people go about trying to explore that region? What are the results?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how Lina comes to have the instructions for leaving Ember. How does she finally figure out what the instructions mean? How might the lives of the people of Ember have been different if the mayors had completed their duties with regard to handing down the box?

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