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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. Who had helped Xander find his lost tablet container once when they were young?

2. What is going on at the library?

3. Whom does Cassia want to tell about the other person who has shown up on her microcard?

4. Why does Cassia offer to Em to use at her Match Banquet?

5. Who challenges Cassia to open her eyes to see beyond what is generally considered acceptable?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cassia feel about her Match and the image of someone else's face on her micro card?

2. What is Cassia's special talent in the Society?

3. How is Ky different from everyone else during a film's death scene?

4. What does Cassia feel about her father's destruction of Grandfather's tissue samples?

5. What is no longer possible now that Grandfather's tissue samples have been lost?

6. Why does Cassia resist taking her green pills?

7. How do Cassia and her parents feel about Xander for her Match?

8. What is the importance of the Matching system?

9. Where does Cassia decide to get rid of Grandfather's paper and why is it so risky?

10. Why can't Cassia get more information about Ky?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the greatest lesson Cassia learns from Ky? Is it that important lessons are also painful ones? What will Cassia always recall about her time with Ky?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Xander and Ky. Both young men are trying to carve out new lives but seem to have different methods and goals. How are Xander and Ky alike? How are they different? On what things do they agree? What is the thing that threatens to separate them? What other similarities and dissimilarities are there between the two characters?

Essay Topic 3

Coming of age is an important theme in MATCHED. Can you cite an example to support this theme? Name two other themes and cite examples to support your answer.

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