WorksheetsCIty of Ember Quiz 1 - Chapters 1,2,3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The builders said the people must live in the city of Ember for at least ____ years before leaving.
5000
200
60
100
______ was to keep the instructions for leaving the city of Ember.
The oldest person in Ember
The commissioners
The mayor
The chief builder
What happened to the chief builder's plan for the box?
One mayor died before he could tell his successor about the box.
The box was broken into, and its contents were stolen.
The box was destroyed by a hammer.
What was different about the city of Ember?
The city was built on an island.
In the city the sky was always dark.
The weather stayed the same year round in the city of Ember.
Everything in the city of Ember was built of steel.
What happened on assignment day?
Students picked a job from a small cloth sack.
The mayor of Ember assigned jobs to the students based on their skills.
Students were allowed to pick job assignments based on their talents.
According to Lina, which one of the following job assignments was considered a "bad" job?
greenhouse helper
timekeeper's assistant
messenger
pipeworks laborer
Why did Doon want to trade jobs with Lina?
Lina had an easier job.
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 the Pipeworks.
The main idea of Chapter I "Assignment Day" is __________ .
Doon and Lina are such good friends that Doon will trade his good job for Lina's bad job.
The students of Ember find out what they will be doing for the next three years.
The mayor of Ember with his vast, heavy build was a tyrant who loved to boss the students around.
What did the city look like?
The center of town had skyscrapers with many office buildings, while the edges of the town had small homes where the people lived.
The streets were lined with wooden buildings painted in different colors.
All the streets looked the same with rows of two-story stone buildings. On the street level were shops and above were apartments.
What job did Granny have?
Granny worked in the greenhouses planting vegetables
Granny was a seamstress. She made clothes for the people of Ember
Granny unraveled sweaters and picked apart clothes so people could use them to make new clothes.
What happened to Lina's parents?
They died two years before.
They moved to the next city to find better work.
Their jobs required them to travel, so they were not home much.
Poppy was _____________ years old
5
1 1/2
10
7
The people of Ember did not know the exact year because ____________.
they had to rely on timekeepers to change the date sign and wind the clock
the power went off on occasion, and no one knew the exact time to reset the clocks when the power came back on
Where did Lina go that she was not supposed to go?
the mayor's bedroom
the roof of the Gathering Hall
the storage room
the kitchen
The loud sound that Doon heard when he first entered the tunnels was ______.
the generator
the river
workmen with tools
How was Doon to find his way around the Pipeworks?
Doon used a compass.
Signs were painted throughout the Pipeworks.
All workers were supplied with a map.
During his lunch break Doon _______.
went to see the generator
met friends a few tunnels down
went out of the tunnels to find Lina
Doon had a talent for _______.
singing
mechanics
bookwork
working with people
What was unusual about the sequence of events in Chapters 2 and 3?
Chapters 2 and 3 were the same day from the prospective of two different characters.
Chapter 3 was a flashback to an earlier time in the city of Ember.
The events in Chapter 3 took place 240 years after the events in Chapter 2.
What hobby does Doon have?
studying insects
collecting bottle caps
drawing pictures of people
