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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 being set up in all of the auditoriums after the Day of Unanimity?

2. When a woman breaks the ranks of the walk to rush toward a prisoner being escorted through the crown, who does D-503 mistake the woman for?

3. How many people die when the Integral's engines are first fired?

4. What do the dissenters do on the Day of Unanimity?

5. What does each number receive in preparation for the Day of Unanimity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the first firing of the Integral's engines?

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

3. What is D-503 to do at 12:00 sharp on the day that the Integral makes its test flight?

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

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

6. What is the Day of Unanimity?

7. What new operation does D-503 learn about in the newspaper?

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

9. What alarming event occurs at the Day of Unanimity ceremony?

10. What does D-503 think that his readers truly believe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the plot-related elements of fiction in the story. When does the climax occur? The denouement? What events can be considered major events or turning points? What do these elements mean for the rest of the story/characters?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss math as an underlying theme in the novel. What elements are geometric? What role does algebra play (i.e., what formulas/equations are presented?). How is problem-solution methodology applied?

Essay Topic 3

In what way is the society presented in "We" a primitive one? How is it a civilized one? Can it be both?

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