The Measure Quizzes

The Measure Quiz 1

1 Where is Ben when his box is delivered?
On a plane

On the train

With his girlfriend

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

To the airport

Into NYC

To popular vacation destinations
3 When did the boxes originally arrive?
Early in the morning all around the world

On everyones 20th birthday

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?
You‘re absolved

Your death date is earlier

The box is locked until you come of age

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

Ben

Maura

Amie
7 What are the results of the initial scientific findings on the strings?
People with long strings were granted immortality

People with shorter strings usually had incurable diseases

The string could only be cut with a blade

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?
The dead

Original sin

Aliens

A rogue religious faction
10 What material is the box?
A material that looks like mahogany

Cherrywood

Mahogany

A material that looks like 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

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

Yes
12 What book does Amie find under her bed?
The Hunger Games

Atonement

The Giver

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

Penn Station

Grand Central Station

The Empire State Building
14 What is The Measure named after?
a Bible quote

a prophecy

a book of divination

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

It gives the exact date

4 years

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?
Long Stringers Only

How to Support Short-Stringers

Reddit

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

Only her best friend

Everyone

Only the editor-in-chief
19 What is the average length of the people at Nina’s workplace’s strings?
Chose not to open the box

Short string

Long string

Average string
20 Who has the longest string of the following characters?
Ben

Sean

Maura

Hank
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

The Hunger Games

The Odyssey

Atonement
23 Which hospital did Hank work at?
Memorial Hospital

Liberty Hospital

New York Presbyterian

New York University Hospital
24 Which characters exchange letters?
Claire and Hank

Ben and Claire

Amie and Ben

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

Anthony Johnson

Alice Harper

Wes Johnson, Sr.

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