The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?

On a plane

With his girlfriend

At home

On the train
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?

To the airport

Into NYC

Away from 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?

25

18

22

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

The box is locked until you come of age

You‘re absolved

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age
6 Who sees their box first in the book?

Nina

Amie

Ben

Maura
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 usually had incurable diseases

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

Architect

Editor

Historian

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

Original sin

The dead

A rogue religious faction
10 What material is the box?

A material that looks like mahogany

A material that looks like cherrywood

Cherrywood

Mahogany
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

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

No

Yes
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?

Crime and Punishment

The Giver

Atonement

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

Grand Central Station

The New York City Skyline

The Empire State Building

Penn 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?

4 years

It gives the exact date

10 years

2 years
16 How is the death age measured by the string?

The entire length of the string

The knots in 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?

How to Support Short-Stringers

Don’t Try This At Home

Reddit

Long Stringers Only
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?

Know one

Only her best friend

Only the editor-in-chief

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

Chose not to open the box

Average string

Short string

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

Sean

Maura

Hank

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

The Giver

Atonement

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

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

Tuck Everlasting

The Odyssey

The Hunger Games

Atonement
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?

New York Presbyterian

Memorial Hospital

New York University Hospital

Liberty Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?

Amie and Ben

Hank and Amie

Ben and Claire

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

Anthony Johnson

Anthony Rollins

Wes Johnson, Sr.

Alice Harper

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