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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 does D-503 learn that the Operation has become mandatory?
(a) From U-.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) From O-90.
(d) The loudpseaker.

2. How many tons of fuel does D-503 suggest be taken on board the Integral?
(a) 1,000 tons.
(b) 50 tons.
(c) Two tons.
(d) A year's worth.

3. What does the newspaper report about the Day of Unanimity on the day after?
(a) That the Benefactor is dead.
(b) That I-330 is the new president.
(c) A great war brewing.
(d) Unanimous re-election of the Benefactor.

4. Who does D-503 get cryptic notes from asking him to pretend that she is with him in his room?
(a) O-90.
(b) The old woman.
(c) His mother.
(d) I-330.

5. What expression does D-503 use to describe the pity felt by the ancients?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Stupidly ignorant.
(c) Arithmetically illiterate.
(d) Senseless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator discover as a boy on the Day of Unanimity?

2. What does U- tell the Guardians about D-503?

3. What does the State's new operation claim to remove?

4. What are people talking about instead of the strife in the One State?

5. How do the citizens walk in rows?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as the crowd is trying to escape from the chaos at the ceremony?

2. Why does work stop one day shortly after the Unanimity celebration?

3. What does U- do that causes D-503 to resent her?

4. What is the Day of Unanimity?

5. According to the narrator, what is the only right a citizen has in the One State?

6. What happens when D-503 attempts to start the mutiny on the Integral?

7. What does D-503 see in the streets the day after the Unanimity ceremony?

8. What happens during the walk that D-503 relates to the time a meteorite fell into the marching rows of people?

9. What is the consequence for refusing the Operation?

10. As a child, why does D-503 get upset on the Day of Unanimity?

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