The City of Ember Final

What happened on Assignment Day?

• Students picked a job from a small cloth green sack as their new job.

• The mayor of Ember assigned jobs to the students based on their skills.

• Students were allowed to pick job assignments based on their talents.

• The teacher and the mayor selected jobs for the students as they left school.

Why did Doon want to trade jobs with Lina?

• Lina had an easier job than Doon had drawn.

• Doon had a broken leg and would not be able to run all over Ember with messages.

• Doon wanted to work on the generator near Pipeworks.

• Doon’s father did not want him to be a messenger in the city because it was too dangerous.

The people from Ember had never _____.

• used electricity before

• met someone from another city/place other than Ember

• climbed up a staircase

• eaten vegetables

Lina thought that the partial document was _____ (from the opened case).

• directions for building the city

• instructions for saving the city

• recipe from the first people of Ember

• Poppy’s homework

What surrounds the City of Ember on all sides?

• the mayor and the police force

• the river

• darkness

• a volcano

The Believers and Captain Fleery thought that _____.

• the Builders were coming back to help/save the City of Ember

• the magic of the box would have saved the people of Ember

• the Instructions would have found and saved the City of Ember

• the people of Ember were too happy to leave Ember

At the end of Chapter 12, Lina realizes Doon is really her best friend.

• True

• False

The builders said the people must live in the City of Ember for at least _____ years before leaving.

• 5,000 years

• 60 years

• 200 years

• 1,000 years

Who did Doon see sleeping in the secret room within the Pipeworks?

• Looper

• Barton Snode

• the Mayor

• the guards from the Gathering Hall

What event is described- “shouts of alarm came from up and down the street, and then silence…Terror swept through her. I must stand still, she thought…She took a step. When she didn’t bump into anything, she took another step, and the fingers of her right hand crumpled against something hard.”

• Lina running in the streets delivering messages.

• Lina was out in the street when Poppy was lost, and the lights went out.

• Lina was searching for grandma.

• Lina saw Sadge in the street going crazy again.