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 popular vacation destinations

To the airport

Into NYC
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?
At night all around the world

At the same exact time all around the world

On everyones 20th birthday

Early in the morning all around the world
4 What is the lowest age for people receiving the box?
25

There is no minimum age

18

22
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?
Ben

Amie

Nina

Maura
7 What are the results of the initial scientific findings on the strings?
The string could only be cut with a blade

People with shorter strings were more violent

People with long strings were granted immortality

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases
8 What is Ben's profession?
Doctor

Historian

Architect

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

The dead

Aliens

Original sin
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?
Children are the only ones immune to death until 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

Yes
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?
Atonement

The Hunger Games

Crime and Punishment

The Giver
13 What is sketched on Ben’s note that Amie received from the janitor?
The New York City Skyline

Penn Station

The Empire State Building

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

a prophecy

a book of divination

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

It gives the exact date

4 years

10 years
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 entire length of the string

The knots in 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?
Know one

Everyone

Only her best friend

Only the editor-in-chief
19 What is the average length of the people at Nina’s workplace’s strings?
Short string

Long string

Average string

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

Hank

Ben

Sean
21 What book did Amie have her class read during the school year?
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

The Parable

Atonement

The Giver
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

Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital

New York University 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?
Wes Johnson, Sr.

Anthony Johnson

Alice Harper

Anthony Rollins

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