The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?
On the train

With his girlfriend

At home

On a plane
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?
Into NYC

Away from NYC

To popular vacation destinations

To the airport
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?
At the same exact time all around the world

Early in the morning 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?
22

18

25

There is no minimum age
5 What happens if you’re under the minimum age when the boxes were given out?
Your death date is earlier

You‘re absolved

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age

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

Nina

Ben

Maura
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

The string could only be cut with a blade

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

Doctor

Architect

Editor
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

Aliens

Original sin
10 What material is the box?
Cherrywood

A material that looks like cherrywood

A material that looks like mahogany

Mahogany
11 Are long-stringers immune to death before the end of their string?
Children are the only ones immune to death until 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

No

Yes
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?
The Giver

Crime and Punishment

Atonement

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

The Empire State Building

Penn Station
14 What is The Measure named after?
a Bible quote

a book of divination

a parable

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

It gives the exact date

10 years

4 years
16 How is the death age measured by the string?
The saturation of color of the string

The entire length of the string

Current age minus the length of the string

The knots in the string
17 Where is the first long-stringer info board Nina reads called?
Long Stringers Only

How to Support Short-Stringers

Don’t Try This At Home

Reddit
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?
Know one

Only the editor-in-chief

Everyone

Only her best friend
19 What is the average length of the people at Nina’s workplace’s strings?
Average string

Long string

Short string

Chose not to open the box
20 Who has the longest string of the following characters?
Ben

Sean

Maura

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

The Giver

Atonement

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
22 What book did Amie assign her class as their summer reading?
Tuck Everlasting

Atonement

The Odyssey

The Hunger Games
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?
Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital

New York Presbyterian

New York University Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?
Hank and Amie

Ben and Claire

Amie and Ben

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

Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Johnson

Alice Harper

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