Crossed Quizzes

Crossed Quiz #1

1 What scene is depicted when the story opens?
Ky and Vick are disposing of a body.

Ky is disposing of Vick's body.

Ky and Vick are reciting a poem.

Vick is reciting a poem.
2 What is the poem said over the body?
Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle"

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"

Emily Dickinson's "Battlefield"
3 Where is Cassia at the book's opening?
Trading in Camas Province

On a work detail in Tana Province

In the Outer Provinces as a recruit

About to head to Central
4 What painting does Cassia have a copy of?
The Scream

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Crossing the Bar

Chasm of the Colorado
5 Why are recruits heading up the mountain in Chapter 3?
To retrieve the fresh snow

To clean the poisoned water

To dig graves

To fight back against the enemy
6 What does Ky spend his time doing despite its prohibition?
Digging graves for the dead recruits

Asking around about Cassia

Collecting gun powder

Sharing poetry with Eli
7 Why does Cassia want to trade with the Archivist?
To find Ky

To get to Central

To find the Rising

To get back to her family
8 Why does Cassia tell Xander that she traded Ky's compass and not his blue tablets?
To blackmail him

To confuse him

To make him jealous

To comfort him
9 What does Vick reveal is true of the blue tablets?
They calm you during anxious times

They sustain human life

They're poisonous

They make you forget the events of the last 12 hours
10 Why does Ky want to take Eli on their escape to the Carving?
Eli is the only recruit who can sort.

Eli is too medically fragile to stay in the village.

Eli's parents are dead.

Eli reminds Ky of Cassia's brother, Bram.
11 What did Cassia ultimately receive in the trade with the Archivist?
A story of Tennyson's poem

A map to the Rising

A story paralleling that of Sisyphus

A second copy of the Chasm of the Colorado
12 How does Cassia get aboard the air ship the next morning?
She pretends to be an Official.

She sneaks on when no one is looking.

She takes the place of Indie, who ran off.

She agrees to give the Officers her blue tablets.
13 To which past event does Cassia's being taken to the Outer Provinces draw a parallel?
Cassia being assigned a data sorter vocation

Cassia being Matched to Xander

Ky being taken from Oria Province

Xander losing his tablets at the local pool
14 Why does Ky gather gun powder in Chapter 7?
To make grenades out of their guns

To prepare for when they escape to the Carving

To bury with the bodies

To set fire to the village
15 The recruits humming the Society's anthem as they work is an example of what?
Allusion

Synecdoche

Situational irony

Personification
16 Cassia and Indie hiding each other's concealed possessions on the airship is important because of what reason?
It allows Cassia to dispose of her blue tablets.

It establishes trust between them.

It gets Indie to give Cassia something.

Indie steals Cassia's microcard.
17 Why do Ky, Vick, and Eli run when they do?
The village runs out of water.

Other recruits get word of their escape plan.

The village comes under fire.

There are new, "different" recruits coming soon.
18 How did Ky discover that red tablets don't work on him?
He took one during a nutrition disposal shift one day.

The Society fed him one when they killed his parents and then lied to him about how they died.

Ky was given one when he was forcibly taken from Oria.

Ky and Xander took them at the same time and the tablets worked on neither.
19 How does Cassia convince the unnamed recruit to come with her and Indie?
She tells him about the red tablets.

She lies to him about knowing the location of the Rising.

She promises him a reward (her blue tablets).

She admits that the recruits are just there to die.
20 Indie likens their trek to the Carving to what?
Running a marathon

Escaping the Society in a boat

Running on a treadmill

Being in a dream
21 Having Ky as a narrator is a useful literary choice because of what reason?
He preaches about humility and kindness.

Ky has a dry sense of humor.

It informs the reader about things that Cassia doesn't know.

We learn more about Indie.
22 Ky, Vick, and Eli discover what about their jackets?
They warm them artificially.

They are full of blue wires.

They collect data on them.

All of these
23 Cassia not knowing about the blue tablet's true purpose is an example of what?
Allegory

Allusion

Dramatic irony

Purposeful imagery
24 How does Indie say that she became an Aberration?
Her mother tried to escape the Society in a boat.

She went sailing without permission.

She tried to escape the Society in a boat.

Her father tried to escape the Society in a boat.
25 How did the original Anomalies come to be?
They were reclassified after heinous crimes.

They wanted to farm cottonwood.

They tried to help Aberrations escape.

They chose not to be part of the Society.
26 Ky noticing a light on in the settlement is an example of what?
Foreshadowing

Metonymy

Allegory

Simile

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