Crossed Quizzes

Crossed Quiz #1

1 What scene is depicted when the story opens?
Ky and Vick are reciting a poem.

Ky and Vick are disposing of a body.

Vick is reciting a poem.

Ky is disposing of Vick's body.
2 What is the poem said over the body?
Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle"

Emily Dickinson's "Battlefield"
3 Where is Cassia at the book's opening?
About to head to Central

On a work detail in Tana Province

In the Outer Provinces as a recruit

Trading in Camas Province
4 What painting does Cassia have a copy of?
Crossing the Bar

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Chasm of the Colorado

The Scream
5 Why are recruits heading up the mountain in Chapter 3?
To retrieve the fresh snow

To dig graves

To fight back against the enemy

To clean the poisoned water
6 What does Ky spend his time doing despite its prohibition?
Collecting gun powder

Digging graves for the dead recruits

Sharing poetry with Eli

Asking around about Cassia
7 Why does Cassia want to trade with the Archivist?
To get back to her family

To get to Central

To find Ky

To find the Rising
8 Why does Cassia tell Xander that she traded Ky's compass and not his blue tablets?
To comfort him

To confuse him

To make him jealous

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

They make you forget the events of the last 12 hours

They're poisonous

They sustain human life
10 Why does Ky want to take Eli on their escape to the Carving?
Eli's parents are dead.

Eli is the only recruit who can sort.

Eli reminds Ky of Cassia's brother, Bram.

Eli is too medically fragile to stay in the village.
11 What did Cassia ultimately receive in the trade with the Archivist?
A second copy of the Chasm of the Colorado

A story of Tennyson's poem

A map to the Rising

A story paralleling that of Sisyphus
12 How does Cassia get aboard the air ship the next morning?
She pretends to be an Official.

She agrees to give the Officers her blue tablets.

She sneaks on when no one is looking.

She takes the place of Indie, who ran off.
13 To which past event does Cassia's being taken to the Outer Provinces draw a parallel?
Cassia being Matched to Xander

Xander losing his tablets at the local pool

Cassia being assigned a data sorter vocation

Ky being taken from Oria Province
14 Why does Ky gather gun powder in Chapter 7?
To prepare for when they escape to the Carving

To set fire to the village

To bury with the bodies

To make grenades out of their guns
15 The recruits humming the Society's anthem as they work is an example of what?
Allusion

Personification

Situational irony

Synecdoche
16 Cassia and Indie hiding each other's concealed possessions on the airship is important because of what reason?
It establishes trust between them.

Indie steals Cassia's microcard.

It gets Indie to give Cassia something.

It allows Cassia to dispose of her blue tablets.
17 Why do Ky, Vick, and Eli run when they do?
The village comes under fire.

Other recruits get word of their escape plan.

The village runs out of water.

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.

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.

The Society fed him one when they killed his parents and then lied to him about how they died.
19 How does Cassia convince the unnamed recruit to come with her and Indie?
She promises him a reward (her blue tablets).

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

She admits that the recruits are just there to die.

She tells him about the red tablets.
20 Indie likens their trek to the Carving to what?
Running a marathon

Running on a treadmill

Escaping the Society in a boat

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 collect data on them.

They warm them artificially.

They are full of blue wires.

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

Purposeful imagery

Dramatic irony

Allegory
24 How does Indie say that she became an Aberration?
She went sailing without permission.

She tried to escape the Society in a boat.

Her father tried to escape the Society in a boat.

Her mother tried to escape the Society in a boat.
25 How did the original Anomalies come to be?
They wanted to farm cottonwood.

They chose not to be part of the Society.

They were reclassified after heinous crimes.

They tried to help Aberrations escape.
26 Ky noticing a light on in the settlement is an example of what?
Foreshadowing

Simile

Metonymy

Allegory

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