The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?

With his girlfriend

On a plane

At home

On the train
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?

Into NYC

To the airport

To popular vacation destinations

Away from NYC
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?

Early in the morning all around the world

At the same exact time all around the world

On everyones 20th birthday

At night all around the world
4 What is the lowest age for people receiving the box?

There is no minimum age

18

25

22
5 What happens if you’re under the minimum age when the boxes were given out?

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age

You‘re absolved

Your death date is earlier

The box is locked until you come of age
6 Who sees their box first in the book?

Ben

Maura

Amie

Nina
7 What are the results of the initial scientific findings on the strings?

People with shorter strings were more violent

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases

The string could only be cut with a blade

People with long strings were granted immortality
8 What is Ben's profession?

Historian

Editor

Architect

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

Original sin

A rogue religious faction

Aliens

The dead
10 What material is the box?

Mahogany

Cherrywood

A material that looks like cherrywood

A material that looks like mahogany
11 Are long-stringers immune to death before the end of their string?

Yes

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

No

People under the minimum age to receive the boxes are the only ones immune to death until the end of their string
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?

Atonement

Crime and Punishment

The Giver

The Hunger Games
13 What is sketched on Ben’s note that Amie received from the janitor?

Grand Central Station

The New York City Skyline

Penn Station

The Empire State Building
14 What is The Measure named after?

a parable

a prophecy

a Bible quote

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

4 years

10 years

It gives the exact date

2 years
16 How is the death age measured by the string?

The entire length of the string

The saturation of color of the string

The knots in the string

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

How to Support Short-Stringers

Reddit

Don’t Try This At Home

Long Stringers Only
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?

Only her best friend

Only the editor-in-chief

Everyone

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

Chose not to open the box

Long string

Short string

Average string
20 Who has the longest string of the following characters?

Maura

Ben

Sean

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

The Parable

Atonement

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

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

The Odyssey

Atonement

The Hunger Games

Tuck Everlasting
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?

Memorial Hospital

New York Presbyterian

Liberty Hospital

New York University Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?

Ben and Claire

Amie and Ben

Hank and Amie

Claire and Hank
25 Which presidential candidate does the reader know to be a short stringer?

Anthony Johnson

Alice Harper

Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Rollins

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