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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. Why do the children in the schoolyard gaze curiously at Claire when she is on her way to the Fish Hatchery?
(a) She is riding a tandem bicycle with no one in the second seat.
(b) She is riding a bicycle and everyone else walks.
(c) She is riding a scooter and everyone else drives cars.
(d) She is walking and everyone else rides bicycles.

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

3. When Claire is at lunch and is surprised at her table mate's comment that going into labor causes pain, what word does she tell her table mate had been used within her instruction instead?
(a) Tingling.
(b) Unease.
(c) Discomfort.
(d) Cramping.

4. The male Nurturer teaches Claire's son to respond in what way whenever Claire says bye-bye?
(a) He teaches him to whistle.
(b) He teaches him to wave.
(c) He teaches him to say bye-bye.
(d) He teaches him to flap his arms.

5. 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) Escape.
(b) Kill someone.
(c) Die.
(d) Banish herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Claire's nametag contain besides her name?

2. When Claire sees the male Nurturer on his bicycle, what does she see that gives her hope regarding his continued involvement with her son?

3. What problem does the male Nurturer say is still plaguing Claire's son, endangering the possibility of his being assigned to a parental unit?

4. What is the name of the male Nurturer's daughter?

5. When Claire sees the male Nurturer out on his bicycle, how many months has it been since they have seen one another?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claire feel about the river that borders the community?

2. What does Claire realize during breakfast one day when she sees the other Fish Hatchery workers cleaning up their tables and getting ready to begin work?

3. When Claire declares that she hates her life, what aspects of her life does she say she despises?

4. How is the event of Claire's first encounter with her son portrayed by the author?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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