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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the girl that has come to Thomas through his thoughts in Chapter Twenty-Nine?

2. Who storms out of the Gathering in Chapter Twenty-Five?

3. How does Thomas get out of the Box in Chapter One?

4. What is the name that new arrivals in the Glade are called?

5. Who are the Med-jacks that carry away the girl to the Homestead in Chapter Nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What statements and suggestions are made at the Gathering regarding Thomas in Chapter Twenty-Four?

2. How is the setting of the Slammer described in Chapter Thirty? How would you describe Thomas's experience there?

3. How is the ritual of the Banishing described in Chapter Fourteen? Who participates in the ritual?

4. How do the Keepers respond to Minho's suggestion at the Gathering in Chapter Twenty-Five? What does Minho say to back up his suggestion?

5. What information does Chuck relate to Thomas when he runs up in the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?

6. What does Thomas do when Minho collapses in Chapter Twelve? What has Minho found?

7. What occurs when Thomas approaches the East Door, despite Chuck's warnings, in Chapter Four?

8. What happens when Thomas, Newt, and Chuck go to the Homestead to see Alby in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

9. Where does Minho take Thomas to equip him as a Runner in Chapter Thirty-Two? What equipment does Thomas receive?

10. Where does Thomas go in response to the experience of telepathy with the girl in Chapter Twenty-Nine? What does he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the social structure within the Glade. How are decisions made amongst the Gladers? How do you think the Gladers came to establish this type of society? Consider the characters in the novel The Lord of the Flies. How does the society established in that novel differ from the boys’ society in the Glade?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the settings of the Weapons Room and the Map Room in the Glade. What weapons are contained in the Weapons Room? Which of these do the Runners use? How does the Map Room differ from Thomas’s expectations?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the setting of the Glade. How large is this setting? How are the Walls described that surround the Glade? What are the sections that the Glade is divided into and what is each section’s purpose?

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