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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Chief Inspector respond when Theo insists that the search of his home begin promptly?
(a) He obliges and sends Cathcart to begin.
(b) He leaves the room to make a call.
(c) He is annoyed by Theo's assertiveness, and searches the home himself.
(d) He questions why Theo would assume he was being searched.

2. On what anniversary that Helena seems ignorant of does she call Theo on the phone?
(a) Thirty years since they married.
(b) One year since she left him.
(c) Twenty-seven years since their daughter died.
(d) One year since his mother died.

3. Which word does the author NOT use to describe the Omega officer who visits Theo's home?
(a) Elegant.
(b) Saturnine.
(c) Expressionless.
(d) Robust.

4. Which is not a demand of the Five Fishes as printed on their pamphlet?
(a) Liberate the Isle of Man.
(b) Provide meals for the homeless.
(c) End the Quietus.
(d) End fertility testing.

5. Xan's large home becomes what in later years?
(a) A school.
(b) A nursing home.
(c) A church.
(d) A mental hospital.

6. What are Sojourners?
(a) Omegas from other countries paid to do servant's work.
(b) Violent women disillusioned about their infertility.
(c) Religious preachers who promise damnation.
(d) Gypsies that rob the elderly.

7. Who does Theo recognize struggling near the ocean?
(a) Hilda.
(b) His mother.
(c) Helena.
(d) Xan's mother.

8. Theo's birthday falls on what holiday?
(a) New Year's Day.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) Easter.
(d) Guy Fox Day.

9. What is the name of the course Theo has taught to the Chief Inspector's niece?
(a) Victorian Life and Times.
(b) History in Elizabethan Literature.
(c) Philosophy of Omega.
(d) Philosophy of Elizabethan England.

10. For whom is there still law and order in England?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) All Europeans.
(c) Britons.
(d) Intellectuals.

11. "I wouldn't say the Tudor age was uniquely cruel... They died young in those days. Every age has its cruelties." Who says this?
(a) Xan.
(b) The Chief Inspector.
(c) Theo.
(d) Oliver Cathcart.

12. Who is Theo meeting in Chapter 14?
(a) Helena.
(b) Julian.
(c) Miriam.
(d) Rolf.

13. When Miriam buries her brother's ashes, what does she say?
(a) "He had died for this nation's paranoia, this unnerving fear of what isn't. You must help us, Theo."
(b) "What pain there is in being sent a loved one in the mail, burying them alone, and living to see they've died for nothing."
(c) "Pouring the ashes into ground, watching them collapse upon another... it was how I knew what I must do."
(d) "I remember that it was raining and when I poured the white grit into the hole it was as if the whole garden was crying."

14. What is on Hilda's cardigan when Theo visits her home?
(a) Congealed food.
(b) A pin of a newborn.
(c) A crucifix.
(d) Blood.

15. What two part-time jobs does Theo accept as part of his cousin's plan?
(a) In an attorney's office and police dispatching.
(b) In a library and on a neighboring farm.
(c) In a hospital and doing house maintenance.
(d) Giving museum tours and fixing cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Theo regret of himself in the last sentence of Chapter 15?

2. Who does Theo's wife leave him for?

3. Finish the quote. "If we are dying we can die as human beings, not as _____."

4. Who points out Felicia's making money out of the former system of criminal prosecution?

5. What is Xan's home in Dorset called?

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