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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Claire's son sleep when the male Nurturer takes him home at night?
(a) In the bathtub.
(b) On the patio.
(c) In the room of the male Nurturer's son.
(d) In the room of the male Nurturer and his wife.

2. What kind of noise is made that summons everyone at the Fish Hatchery to the evening meal?
(a) A buzzer.
(b) A sigh.
(c) A bell.
(d) A horn.

3. Claire decides that if someone in authority tries to force her to take pills, she will do what before she gives up the love she feels for her son?
(a) Die.
(b) Banish herself.
(c) Escape.
(d) Kill someone.

4. Though Claire had never volunteered at the Nurturing Center, where had she spent most of her required volunteer time as a child?
(a) At the library.
(b) At the high school.
(c) At the Childcare Center.
(d) At the local farm.

5. When a Newchild is showing signs of being ineligible for assignment, it is called a failure to do what?
(a) To thrive.
(b) To live.
(c) To pass muster.
(d) To succeed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Claire finds herself trying to analyze her own feelings for the very first time, what adjective does she use to describe the one emotion she has always felt?

2. In the recurring dreams Claire has in which she is wearing a leather mask, she always weeps when what event occurs?

3. When Jonas is skipped during the Twelves's part of the ceremony, the Chief Elder announces that Jonas is not being assigned, but is instead being what?

4. For what purpose does the male Nurturer find out the name of Claire's infant son?

5. Claire and Sophia cannot go into the room housing the youngest Newchildren because what condition is not met?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change does Claire see in Jonas between the time she sees him racing another boy on his bicycle and the time she sees him walking alone along the river?

2. What sets the birth of Claire's Product apart from those of the other Birthmothers in her dormitory?

3. From what building does Claire avert her eyes on her walk from the Birthmother Dormitory to the Fish Hatchery, and why?

4. Why does Jeanette, one of the Fish Hatchery workers, feel surprise when the name Paul is given to one of the Newchildren at the Ceremony?

5. What reason does Sophia provide for parental units wanting to receive their assigned children once they are a little older, rather than when they are infants?

6. What is Claire's son's comfort item and what had hers been during her childhood?

7. What does one of the Vessels report it had felt like to cease taking the pills when she had been assigned the role of Birthmother?

8. How does Claire feel about her work at the Fish Hatchery?

9. What criterion does Claire give regarding how the Fish Hatchery had been chosen as her workplace and how does the criterion differ from others who work at the Fish Hatchery alongside her?

10. How is the boat's cook Marie described by the narrator?

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