Perfect Little World: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Grind resent his own childhood? (from Prologue – Chapter 3)

Because his parents shipped him off to an orphanage at the age of three.

Because he was raised with the Constant Friction Method.

Because he was raised with frequent corporal punishments.

Because he was sent away to stay in a boarding school nine months out of the year.

2.

Why does Brenda Ackley want to expand the idea of family so badly? (from Prologue – Chapter 3)

Because she believes in the concept of expansive family structures.

Because the rate of marriage has fallen below twenty percent.

Because she opposes the traditional family structure.

Because she loved her time at an orphanage as a child.

3.

Why does Grind insist on not clamping down and controlling every aspect of the lives of the parents? (from Chapters 8 – 11)

Because Grind knows he could be sued by the parents when the true goal of the IFP is finally revealed.

Because Grind is weak-willed and does not have the stomach to see the project through.

Because he knows the children will be the ones to control every aspect of the lives of their parents at Grind's command.

Because the IFP is not a big brother program that denies all human individuality.

4.

Why does Izzy worry so much about caring for nine other children in addition to her own? (from Chapters 4 – 7)

Because she never really knew her own mother and so does not know how to be a mother.

Because she has never been a parent before.

Because she does not feel as if she is a good mother for her own son, let alone nine other children.

Because she must suppress her desire to privilege her own child.

5.

Why does Grind become so angry by the affair between Ellen and Jeremy? (from Chapters 12 – 14)

Because Grind believed Ellen loved him, and not Jeremy.

Because it is against the rules and punishable by death.

Because he did not think such a thing was possible with science to lead the way.

Because there is no reason for this to have happened given all he has done for them.

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