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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kathy see Miss Lucy doing in a quiet classroom at the beginning of chapter 8?
(a) Encouraging Tommy to create more art.
(b) Creating a new type of art.
(c) Blacking out lines on unknown papers.
(d) Scribbling over students' homework.

2. How long does the narrator recall the secret guard lasting?
(a) Three to five years.
(b) Nine months to a year.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) The lifetime of Hailsham.

3. Who does the narrator continuously refer to as the veterans in chapter 10?
(a) Residents who had been there a year or more.
(b) Residents who were of middle age.
(c) Residents who lived there permanently.
(d) Residents who acted as guardians to the newcomers.

4. Why does Ruth ask Kathy to ask Tommy to come back to her in chapter 9?
(a) Because Kathy is Tommy's best friend.
(b) Because Kathy is the reason they broke up.
(c) Because Tommy and Kathy were always able to talk to one another.
(d) Because Kathy has mind washing powers.

5. What does the term completion mean when applied to a donor?
(a) He has died.
(b) He has gotten too old to donate.
(c) He has given all his organs and placed in a nursing home.
(d) He has too many illnesses to donate.

6. What warning does Miss Emily offer the students in chapter 7 about having sex with people in the outside world?
(a) That it was more emotional for those who could have children.
(b) That it could keep them from having to make donations.
(c) That it could be fun.
(d) That it was something they physically could not do.

7. In whose room does Tommy admit in chapter 11 that he saw the narrator looking at similar magazines as the ones he finds her looking at in the boiler room in chapter 11?
(a) Harry's.
(b) Laura's.
(c) Charley's.
(d) Claire's.

8. Whose departure from Hailsham shocks all the students in chapter 9?
(a) Moira.
(b) Eleanor.
(c) Miss Lucy.
(d) Miss Emily.

9. What does the narrator say the students used their tokens on?
(a) Clothing and decorations for their desks.
(b) Video games.
(c) Presents for parents and relatives.
(d) Extra food in the cafeteria.

10. Who first suggested that Madame was frightened of the students at Hailsham?
(a) Laura.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Amanda.

11. What trip does the narrator foreshadow at the end of chapter 11?
(a) A trip to Norfolk.
(b) A trip to London.
(c) A trip to Hailsham.
(d) A trip to Dover.

12. At the end of chapter 4, what does Ruth accuse the narrator of doing all wrong?
(a) Drawing a hopscotch grid on the sidewalk.
(b) Drawing pictures of horses.
(c) Putting their toys away.
(d) Putting her imaginary horses away.

13. Who is Keffers?
(a) The owner of the Cottages.
(b) The caretaker at the Cottages.
(c) The neighbor of the Cottages.
(d) A teacher at the Cottages.

14. What does the narrator mentioned she often used for blankets in chapter 11?
(a) Old curtains and carpet peices.
(b) Old clothing.
(c) Wool cloth scraps.
(d) Blankets donated by rich widows.

15. What difference did the narrator begin to note in Tommy during their Senior 2 year, as described in chapter 2?
(a) He stopped playing sports.
(b) He stopped hanging out with his friends.
(c) He stopped going to classes.
(d) He stopped losing his temper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Lucy tell the students in chapter 7 they are destined to do?

2. In chapter 11, what does the narrator define courses as?

3. How does Kathy find herself on Ruth's good books at the end of part one?

4. What would the narrator often hold while listening to her favorite song, Never Let Me Go?

5. What does Laura teach the narrator in chapter 7 in order to discourage boys?

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