The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

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

On the train

With his girlfriend

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

To the airport

Away from NYC

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

At night all around the world

Early in the morning all around the world

On everyones 20th birthday
4 What is the lowest age for people receiving the box?
There is no minimum age

22

25

18
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?
Amie

Ben

Maura

Nina
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

Editor

Historian
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

Aliens

A rogue religious faction

Original sin
10 What material is the box?
Mahogany

A material that looks like cherrywood

Cherrywood

A material that looks like mahogany
11 Are long-stringers immune to death before 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

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

Crime and Punishment

The Hunger Games

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

The New York City Skyline

The Empire State Building

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

a prophecy

a parable

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

2 years

10 years

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

Current age minus the length of 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?
Reddit

How to Support Short-Stringers

Long Stringers Only

Don’t Try This At Home
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?
Everyone

Only her best friend

Only the editor-in-chief

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

Average string

Short string

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

Ben

Hank

Maura
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?
Atonement

Tuck Everlasting

The Odyssey

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

Liberty Hospital

Memorial Hospital

New York University Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?
Ben and Claire

Hank and Amie

Claire and Hank

Amie and Ben
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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