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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. How long does Alby say he's been in the Glade in Chapter Seven?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

2. What word used at the Gathering in Chapter Twenty-Five means a pretense of having a virtuous character or principles that one does not really possess?
(a) Innocuousness.
(b) Hypocrisy.
(c) Misogyny.
(d) Gallantry.

3. What does Alby tell Newt to protect as he drifts back to sleep in the end of Chapter Twenty-Seven?
(a) The Maps.
(b) The Creators.
(c) The Maze.
(d) The Door.

4. How long does Chuck say he's been in the Glade in Chapter Five?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) One year.
(d) Two weeks.

5. What word, used to describe Ben in Chapter Fourteen, means an insane person?
(a) A lunatic.
(b) An immortal.
(c) A heretic.
(d) A decelerator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alby begin to do as he talks privately with Thomas in the recovery area in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

2. How long is the Griever described that first approaches Thomas as he hides in the vines in Chapter Nineteen?

3. What section of the Glade are the Track-hoes in charge of maintaining?

4. Who suggests at the Gathering that Thomas be put in the Slammer for a week with nothing but bread and water for his punishment in Chapter Twenty-Four?

5. What does Chuck bring for him and Thomas to eat in the beginning of Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the setting of the Slammer described in Chapter Thirty? How would you describe Thomas's experience there?

2. What does Thomas encounter as he makes his way back to the Glade in Chapter Ten? Who leaps out and frightens Thomas?

3. What does Thomas encounter once he's inside the Maze in Chapter Seventeen? What are Minho and Alby doing?

4. How is the protagonist introduced in Chapter One? What history is established for this character in the first paragraphs of the novel?

5. What does Thomas do when Minho collapses in Chapter Twelve? What has Minho found?

6. How does Alby describe the structure and divisions within the Glade? What is each area's designation?

7. How is the ritual of the Banishing described in Chapter Fourteen? Who participates in the ritual?

8. Where does Thomas go in response to the experience of telepathy with the girl in Chapter Twenty-Nine? What does he do?

9. What does Alby tell Thomas about his history in the Glade in Chapter Seven? What does he reveal about the Maze?

10. How are Thomas and Minho greeted when they return to the Glade in Chapter Twenty-Two?

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