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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Theo's daughter's name?
(a) Helena.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Anna.
(d) Natalie.

4. What display of the museum has Xan always preferred?
(a) The Impressionists paintings.
(b) The mummies.
(c) The early classical male statues.
(d) The evolution exhibit.

5. What does Theo expect at the end of his meeting with Xan?
(a) The clamp of the Grenadier's hand.
(b) Xan to ask Theo to return to work for him.
(c) A door to be slammed behind him.
(d) Another snide remark from Felicia.

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

7. When Theo is frustrated during his conversation in Chapter 14, what does the author say he wishes to do?
(a) Fall to the ground.
(b) Jump into traffic.
(c) Pray for mercy.
(d) Bang his head.

8. What is Theo's job with Xan?
(a) Minister for Justice and State Security.
(b) Advisor.
(c) Minister of Historic Record.
(d) Secretary.

9. How does the driver describe the flagellants?
(a) "An obnoxious reminder to our fate."
(b) "A horde of vile beasts unworthy of breath."
(c) "A rabble of no-hopers."
(d) "A group adding nothing more than insult to injury."

10. Which is the Year Omega?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1990.

11. Finish the quote. "If we are dying we can die as human beings, not as _____."
(a) Devils.
(b) Animals.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Monsters.

12. Where is Digby from?
(a) Merton.
(b) Brighton.
(c) Cardiff.
(d) Wimbledon.

13. What is Theo's opinion of the Chief Inspector at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) A coward, fulfilling his need for pre-measured authority.
(b) A respectable administer of order, unusual for the times.
(c) A terrifying bureaucrat capable of unspeakable evil.
(d) An aging and foul-smelling, wishful hero who missed his chance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Grenadiers?

2. Why does the priest demand that Theo leave the church before eleven?

3. How does Theo describe the destruction of ramps at the Quietus to the Chief Inspector?

4. Why is Helena accepted into Oxford University when she is young?

5. The position of Warden of England has officially replaced which other title?

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