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?

Into NYC

To the airport

Away from NYC

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

On everyones 20th birthday

Early in the morning all around the world

At night all around the world

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

25

18

22

There is no minimum age
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

Your death date is earlier

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age

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

Amie

Maura

Ben

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

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases

The string could only be cut with a blade

People with long strings were granted immortality

People with shorter strings were more violent
8 What is Ben's profession?

Architect

Editor

Doctor

Historian
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

A rogue religious faction

The dead

Aliens
10 What material is the box?

Mahogany

A material that looks like cherrywood

A material that looks like mahogany

Cherrywood
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?

Atonement

The Hunger Games

The Giver

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

The New York City Skyline

The Empire State Building

Penn Station

Grand Central Station
14 What is The Measure named after?

a parable

a Bible quote

a book of divination

a prophecy
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?

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?

Reddit

Long Stringers Only

How to Support Short-Stringers

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

Only her best friend

Only the editor-in-chief

Everyone

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

Long string

Chose not to open the box

Average string

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

Sean

Hank

Maura

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

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

The Giver

Atonement

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

The Odyssey

Tuck Everlasting

The Hunger Games

Atonement
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?

New York University Hospital

New York Presbyterian

Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?

Claire and Hank

Hank and Amie

Amie and Ben

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

Anthony Johnson

Alice Harper

Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Rollins

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