The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?
With his girlfriend

At home

On the train

On a plane
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?
Early in the morning all around the world

At night 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?
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?
Maura

Nina

Amie

Ben
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?
Editor

Historian

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

The dead

Aliens

A rogue religious faction
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?
Children are the only ones immune to death until the end of their string

Yes

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?
Crime and Punishment

Atonement

The Hunger Games

The Giver
13 What is sketched on Ben’s note that Amie received from the janitor?
Grand Central Station

Penn Station

The Empire State Building

The New York City Skyline
14 What is The Measure named after?
a book of divination

a prophecy

a parable

a Bible quote
15 What is the margin of error/range of death-age as prescribed by the strings and translated by science?
It gives the exact date

2 years

10 years

4 years
16 How is the death age measured by the string?
The knots in the string

The entire length of 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?
Reddit

Don’t Try This At Home

How to Support Short-Stringers

Long Stringers Only
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

Chose not to open the box

Long string

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

Sean

Ben

Maura
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 Hunger Games

Tuck Everlasting

Atonement

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

Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital

New York Presbyterian
24 Which characters exchange letters?
Amie and Ben

Hank and Amie

Claire and Hank

Ben and Claire
25 Which presidential candidate does the reader know to be a short stringer?
Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Rollins

Alice Harper

Anthony Johnson

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