The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?
At home

On a plane

With his girlfriend

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

Into NYC

Away from NYC

To the airport
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

The box is locked until you come of age

Your death date is earlier

You‘re absolved
6 Who sees their box first in the book?
Ben

Maura

Nina

Amie
7 What are the results of the initial scientific findings on the strings?
People with long strings were granted immortality

The string could only be cut with a blade

People with shorter strings were more violent

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases
8 What is Ben's profession?
Doctor

Architect

Historian

Editor
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

The dead

Aliens

A rogue religious faction
10 What material is the box?
A material that looks like mahogany

Cherrywood

Mahogany

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

People under the minimum age to receive the boxes are the only ones immune to death until the end of their string

No

Children 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?
The New York City Skyline

Grand Central Station

Penn Station

The Empire State Building
14 What is The Measure named after?
a Bible quote

a book of divination

a prophecy

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

4 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 knots in the string

Current age minus the length of the string

The saturation of color of the string
17 Where is the first long-stringer info board Nina reads called?
Long Stringers Only

Reddit

Don’t Try This At Home

How to Support Short-Stringers
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?
Only the editor-in-chief

Know one

Only her best friend

Everyone
19 What is the average length of the people at Nina’s workplace’s strings?
Chose not to open the box

Average string

Short string

Long string
20 Who has the longest string of the following characters?
Maura

Hank

Sean

Ben
21 What book did Amie have her class read during the school year?
The Giver

The Parable

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

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

Tuck Everlasting

Atonement

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

New York University Hospital

Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?
Hank and Amie

Claire and Hank

Amie and Ben

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

Alice Harper

Anthony Rollins

Wes Johnson, Sr.

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