View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator realize has hurt him when he wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) The winter.
(b) The sun.
(c) A skull.
(d) A beast.

2. What did the narrator loose upon arriving in the Town?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His shadow.
(c) His voice.
(d) His eyesight.

3. What object does the Gatekeeper use to make his point to the narrator that the Wall is perfect in Chapter 10?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A sliver of wood.
(c) An axe.
(d) A nail.

4. Where does the narrator put the skull he's received from the old man?
(a) Above the fireplace.
(b) On top of the TV.
(c) On the sideboard.
(d) In the closet.

5. What did the Professor take with him when he left the System?
(a) All of the mammalian skulls.
(b) The process for shuffling.
(c) All of the research samples.
(d) The narrator's personal file.

6. Where does the narrator say the smoke comes from?
(a) The Southern Hill.
(b) The Eastern Woods.
(c) The Apple Grove.
(d) The Worker's Quarter.

7. What is the second book the narrator reads towards the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Spring Torrents.
(b) Spartacus.
(c) Rudin.
(d) The Red and the Black.

8. What kind of tree did the girl see outside her window while in the hospital?
(a) A cypress tree.
(b) An olive tree.
(c) A camphor tree.
(d) An ash tree.

9. Why does the narrator say, following the chubby girl's line of thinking, that the two of them will have to help her grandfather?
(a) Because if they don't, the Factory will get the data.
(b) Because if they don't, they will end up feeling guilty.
(c) Because they are the only friends he has.
(d) Because all three of them are good people.

10. What do the girl and the narrator find half-way up the tower?
(a) A stash of paperclips.
(b) A secret cave.
(c) A message from the Professor.
(d) A rope.

11. What is the old man working on in Chapter 3?
(a) Scent technology.
(b) Comparing skeletons.
(c) Diving technology.
(d) The mammalian palate.

12. Which landmark does the narrator describe in detail at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) The promenade.
(b) The town park.
(c) The town square.
(d) The clock tower.

13. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?
(a) It was a real memory coming back from his core consciousness.
(b) It was an artificial memory the Professor made up.
(c) It was an artificial memory the narrator made up.
(d) It was the shadow of a memory from before the shuffle.

14. How does the narrator pass the sunny days?
(a) Face down in bed.
(b) Playing chess with the Colonel.
(c) Talking walks in the Woods.
(d) Reading in the Library.

15. The narrator begins Chapter 5 with a lengthy discussion about the quality of which object?
(a) A skull.
(b) A knife.
(c) A sofa.
(d) A sandwich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator count while in the elevator at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. What does the Colonel say dying might be for the beasts?

3. What does the woman ask the narrator to put on at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What does the old man say the future will be in Chapter 5?

5. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's shadow in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 563 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample