The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?

At home

On the train

On a plane

With his girlfriend
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?

Away from NYC

To the airport

Into NYC

To popular vacation destinations
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?

At night all around the world

Early in the morning all around the world

On everyones 20th birthday

At the same exact time all around the world
4 What is the lowest age for people receiving the box?

There is no minimum age

22

18

25
5 What happens if you’re under the minimum age when the boxes were given out?

The box is locked until you come of age

You‘re absolved

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age

Your death date is earlier
6 Who sees their box first in the book?

Nina

Amie

Maura

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

The string could only be cut with a blade

People with shorter strings were more violent

People with long strings were granted immortality

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases
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?

Aliens

The dead

Original sin

A rogue religious faction
10 What material is the box?

A material that looks like cherrywood

A material that looks like mahogany

Mahogany

Cherrywood
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

No

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

Yes
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?

The Giver

The Hunger Games

Crime and Punishment

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

Grand Central Station

Penn Station

The New York City Skyline

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

a prophecy

a Bible quote

a book of divination

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

2 years

10 years

4 years

It gives the exact date
16 How is the death age measured by the string?

Current age minus the length of the string

The knots in the string

The entire 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

Don’t Try This At Home

How to Support Short-Stringers

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

Everyone

Only the editor-in-chief

Only her best friend

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

Average string

Short string

Chose not to open the box

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

Hank

Maura

Ben

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

Atonement

The Giver

The Parable

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

The Odyssey

The Hunger Games

Tuck Everlasting

Atonement
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?

New York University Hospital

Memorial Hospital

New York Presbyterian

Liberty Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?

Amie and Ben

Ben and Claire

Hank and Amie

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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