The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?

With his girlfriend

On a plane

On the train

At home
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?

Away from NYC

To the airport

To popular vacation destinations

Into NYC
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?

Early in the morning all around the world

At the same exact time 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?

Nina

Amie

Maura

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

People with shorter strings were more violent

People with long strings were granted immortality

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases

The string could only be cut with a blade
8 What is Ben's profession?

Architect

Doctor

Historian

Editor
9 Which group was one of the early groups to be blamed for the appearance of the strings as described in the book?

A rogue religious faction

Aliens

Original sin

The dead
10 What material is the box?

A material that looks like mahogany

A material that looks like cherrywood

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

Yes

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

The New York City Skyline

The Empire State Building

Grand Central Station

Penn Station
14 What is The Measure named after?

a book of divination

a parable

a prophecy

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

2 years

4 years

10 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 saturation of color of the string

The knots in the string

The entire length of the string
17 Where is the first long-stringer info board Nina reads called?

Reddit

Don’t Try This At Home

Long Stringers Only

How to Support Short-Stringers
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?

Only the editor-in-chief

Everyone

Know one

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

Short string

Chose not to open the box

Average string

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

Ben

Hank

Sean

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

The Parable

The Giver

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

Atonement
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?

New York Presbyterian

New York University Hospital

Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?

Ben and Claire

Amie and Ben

Hank and Amie

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

Alice Harper

Anthony Johnson

Anthony Rollins

Wes Johnson, Sr.

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