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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. How much time does Alec say they have to get out of the underground tunnels in the flashback in Chapter 19?

2. What is the largest city near the settlement where Mark lives in the beginning of the novel?

3. What is Mark's blanket described as being made from in Chapter 1?

4. What are human brains described as in the Prologue?

5. Whom does Deedee tell Mark and Alec to watch out for when they go to investigate the singing in the woods in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mark manage to make his way back to the Central Shack in Chapter 4? What does he do afterward?

2. What does Mark discover as Alec tries to get into the cockpit of the Berg in Chapter 6?

3. Where is Mark when the power shuts down in the flashback in Chapter 8? What does he do?

4. What does Lana theorize about the virus in Chapter 17?

5. How do Mark and Alec gain access to the interior of the Berg in Chapter 5?

6. What information do Mark and Alec gain from the workpad in Chapter 9?

7. Where do Mark and his friends take refuge from the destruction in the flashback in Chapter 20? Who accompanies him?

8. What information does Jed reveal to Mark and Alec in Chapter 25? What interrupts Jed?

9. What is revealed through Teresa's thoughts about Thomas in the Prologue of The Kill Order?

10. Who kills the Toad in Chapter 16? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Berg that lands in Mark and Alec's settlement in the beginning of the novel. Who emerges from the Berg and what do they do? How do Alec and Mark manage to take down the Berg? What do they discover once they have taken it down?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the relationships between Mark and Trina and Alec and Lana in the novel. What are the age differences of these characters? For how long have Lana and Alec known one another? For how long have Mark and Trina been friends?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the weapons and technological advances described in The Kill Order. What is a Transvice? How does this weapon work? What is a Flat Trans and how is it operated? How realistic are these devices?

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