The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?
On a plane

At home

With his girlfriend

On the train
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?
To popular vacation destinations

To the airport

Away from NYC

Into NYC
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?
On everyones 20th birthday

At the same exact time all around the world

At night all around the world

Early in the morning all around the world
4 What is the lowest age for people receiving the box?
22

There is no minimum age

25

18
5 What happens if you’re under the minimum age when the boxes were given out?
Your death date is earlier

You‘re absolved

The box is locked until you come of age

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age
6 Who sees their box first in the book?
Maura

Ben

Nina

Amie
7 What are the results of the initial scientific findings on the strings?
People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases

People with shorter strings were more violent

People with long strings were granted immortality

The string could only be cut with a blade
8 What is Ben's profession?
Architect

Editor

Historian

Doctor
9 Which group was one of the early groups to be blamed for the appearance of the strings as described in the book?
The dead

A rogue religious faction

Original sin

Aliens
10 What material is the box?
A material that looks like cherrywood

A material that looks like mahogany

Cherrywood

Mahogany
11 Are long-stringers immune to death before the end of their string?
People under the minimum age to receive the boxes are the only ones immune to death until the end of their string

Children are the only ones immune to death until the end of their string

Yes

No
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?
Crime and Punishment

The Hunger Games

The Giver

Atonement
13 What is sketched on Ben’s note that Amie received from the janitor?
Penn Station

The Empire State Building

Grand Central Station

The New York City Skyline
14 What is The Measure named after?
a prophecy

a book of divination

a Bible quote

a parable
15 What is the margin of error/range of death-age as prescribed by the strings and translated by science?
10 years

2 years

It gives the exact date

4 years
16 How is the death age measured by the string?
The entire length of the string

The knots in the string

The saturation of color of the string

Current age minus the length of the string
17 Where is the first long-stringer info board Nina reads called?
Long Stringers Only

Don’t Try This At Home

Reddit

How to Support Short-Stringers
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?
Only her best friend

Everyone

Only the editor-in-chief

Know one
19 What is the average length of the people at Nina’s workplace’s strings?
Long string

Chose not to open the box

Average string

Short string
20 Who has the longest string of the following characters?
Ben

Hank

Sean

Maura
21 What book did Amie have her class read during the school year?
Atonement

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

The Parable

The Giver
22 What book did Amie assign her class as their summer reading?
Atonement

The Hunger Games

Tuck Everlasting

The Odyssey
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?
New York Presbyterian

Liberty Hospital

Memorial Hospital

New York University Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?
Ben and Claire

Claire and Hank

Hank and Amie

Amie and Ben
25 Which presidential candidate does the reader know to be a short stringer?
Alice Harper

Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Johnson

Anthony Rollins

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