23-25 Among the Betrayed

What did Nina discover at the beginning of the section read last Friday?

• she smelled bad

• they were out of food

• the other kids were whispering about her

• it was getting really cold

What did Nina try planting?

• carrots

• apples

• bananas

• potaoes

What did Nina tell the kids?

• She said they were the survival skills kids so it was their responsibility to find food.

• She told them her gran and aunties had taken care of her and at school she was fed 3 times a day so she didn't know how to get food on her own.

• She told them that they could steal food from the school.

• She told them that she would get her friends from school to bring them food.

What did Nina admit to the kids?

• She was a 3rd child

• She hated them

• She was working for the Population Police.

• She had loved Jason.

What did Nina say about why the 3rd children were illegal?

• She said it was stupid.

• She said it was because there wasn't enough food after the droughts and famines.

• She said it was because the rich people didn't want to be outnumbered.

• She said it was because there wasn't enough space for everyone.

What did Nina think was ironic about starving to death now?

• She said she ate more in prison.

• She said she was "legal" now because she had an ID, but got more food when she was illegal and hidden by her gran and aunts.

• She said that the food shortage was over.

• She said it was a worse way to die than being shot.

How did Nina think she could learn to grow food?

• She could steal a book on gardening.

• She could Google it.

• She could ask Lee Grant.

• She could watch YouTube videos on gardening.

What was the question the kids asked about Lee Grant?

• Could they trust him

• Did he really know what he was doing or did he just assume he could figure it out.

• Was he cute

• Was he nice

What was their plan?

• One of the boys would enroll and get to know Lee to see if they could trust him.

• Nina would say she was his sister and go visit

• They would watch for him to come out to the spot where he used to meet with Jason and the other kids

• Alia would say she was his sister and go visit and tell him what happened.

Who did they decide to send in to talk to Lee?

• Matthais because he was the same age.

• Percy because he was smarter than Matthais.

• Nina dressed as a boy because she was the only one who knew what he looked like.

• Alia dressed as a boy because she was smart and nobody would suspect a small child.