The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?

On a plane

At home

On the train

With his girlfriend
2 When Ben arrives in NYC where are most people headed?

Away from NYC

Into NYC

To the airport

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

On everyones 20th birthday

At the same exact time all around the world

Early in the morning all around the world

At night all around the world
4 What is the lowest age for people receiving the box?

There is no minimum age

25

18

22
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

You‘re absolved

It comes the morning you turn the minimum age

Your death date is earlier
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 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

Editor

Historian

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

Aliens

The dead

A rogue religious faction

Original sin
10 What material is the box?

A material that looks like mahogany

Mahogany

A material that looks like cherrywood

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

No

Yes

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

The Hunger Games

The Giver

Atonement
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 book of divination

a Bible quote

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

2 years

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

The knots in the string

The saturation of color of the string

Current age minus the length of the string

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

Long Stringers Only

Don’t Try This At Home

How to Support Short-Stringers

Reddit
18 Who in Nina’s workplace knows about Maura’s string?

Only the editor-in-chief

Know one

Only her best friend

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

Short string

Average string

Chose not to open the box

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 5 People You Meet in Heaven

Atonement

The Giver

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

The Odyssey

Atonement

Tuck Everlasting

The Hunger Games
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?

Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital

New York Presbyterian

New York University Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?

Hank and Amie

Claire and Hank

Ben and Claire

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

Anthony Rollins

Alice Harper

Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Johnson

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