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The City of Ember (Chapters 1 - 6)

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 48mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was different about the city of Ember?
a)
The city was build on an Island
b)
 In the city the sky was always dark. 
c)
Everything in the city of was built of steel.
2.
What happened on assignment day?
a)
Students picked a job from a small cloth sack
b)
The mayor of Ember assigned jobs to the students based on their skills
c)
Students were allowed to pick job assignments based on their talents.
3.
Students were assigned to their jobs for ________ years.
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
4.
Which one of the following job assignemnts weas considered a "Bad" job?
a)
Greenhouse helper
b)
Timekeeper's assistant
c)
Messenger
d)
Pipeworks Labourer
5.
What condition was the City of Ember in?
a)
Brand new buildings
b)
Prospering with many new supplies
c)
Shortages and blackouts
6.
Why did Doon want to trade jobs with Lina?
a)
Lina had an easier job?
b)
Doon had a broken leg and would not be able to run all over Ember with messages.
c)
Doon wanted to work on the generator near Pipeworks.
7.
The main idea of Chapter 1 "Assignment Day" is ______________________.
a)
Doon and Lina are such good friends that Doon will trade his good job for Lina's bad job
b)
The students of Ember find out what they will be doing for the next three years.
c)
The mayor of Ember with his vast, heavy build was a tyrant who loved to boss the students around.
8.
Which Statement from this chapter is an opinion?
a)
Doon sat in the second row with his shoulders hunched, his eyes squeezed shut and his hands clasped together.
b)
The mayor was a man with a gray face.
c)
The mayor should go on a diet so that he would not get out of breath so easily.
d)
On Assignment Day the classroom was silent.
9.
The builders said the people must live in the city of Ember for at least _______________ years before leaving.
a)
5000
b)
200
c)
60
d)
1000
10.
______________________ was to keep the instructions for leavign the city of Ember.
a)
The oldest person in Ember
b)
The commissioners
c)
The Mayor
d)
The Chief Builder
11.
Who does Lina live with?
a)
Grandma and Poppy
b)
Her mother
c)
Her father
d)
She is an orphan
12.
Why are Doon and Lina no longer friends?
a)
She laughed at him and he yelled at her
b)
She got the job that he had wanted
c)
He was jealous of how easily she could make friends
d)
Lina wanted the job that Doon gotten
13.
Which food in Ember is eaten on a daily basis?
a)
Peaches
b)
Corn
c)
Potatoes
d)
Soylent Green
14.
What surrounds Ember on all sides?
a)
Badger-moles
b)
The river
c)
A volcano
d)
Darkness
15.
About how old are Lina and Doon?
a)
Ten
b)
Twelve
c)
Fourteen
d)
Eighteen
16.
What was the job Lina got after making a trade?
a)
Pipeworks
b)
Time keeper
c)
Greenhouse Assistant
d)
Messenger
17.

Students continue to go to school after beginning their job assignments.

a)

True

b)

False

18.
What kind of shop does Lina's grandmother own?
a)
A materials shop
b)
A flower shop
c)
A small clothing shop
d)
A tool shop 
19.
How did Lina lose her mother?
a)
She got sick and died
b)
She died during childbirth
c)
She died while working in pipeworks
d)
She died from old age
20.
Why don't people ever leave the City of Ember?
a)
They are scared of the darkness of the  Unknown regions
b)
They like the life they are living now
c)
The City of Ember is the best city to live in.
d)
The mayor threatened the people to stay
21.
The loud sound that Doon heard when he first entered the tunnels was:
a)
The generator
b)
The river
c)
Workmen with tools
22.
What was unusual about the sequence of events in Chapters 2 and 3?  
a)
Chapters 2 and 3 were the same day from the prospective of two different characters.
b)
Chapter 3 was a flashback to an earlier time in the city of Ember.
c)
The events in Chapter 3 took place 240 years after the events in Chapter 2
23.
How was Doon to find his way around the Pipeworks?
a)
Doon used a compass.
b)
Signs were painted throughout the Pipeworks. 
c)
All workers were supplied with a map.
24.
Doon calculated that he was _____ feet underground. 
a)
10
b)
5  
c)
30
d)
50
25.
During his lunch break Doon _______.    
a)
Went to see the generator
b)
Meet friends a few tunnels down
c)
Went out of the tunnels to find Lina
26.
Doon had a talent for _______.      
a)
Singing
b)
Mechanics
c)
Bookwork
d)
Working with people
27.
Doon's father made his living by _____________ .      
a)
Delivering vegetables
b)
Guarding the mayor
c)
Repairing the generator
d)
Selling small parts
28.

What hobby does Doon have?

a)

Studying insects

b)

Collecting bottle caps

c)

Drawing pictures of people

29.
Why was Granny tearing up the couch?    
a)
Granny was looking for something that had been lost.
b)
Granny's money had fallen into the couch and she was trying to get it out.
c)
Granny wanted to use the stuffing to make a blanket for Poppy.
30.

What new job was recently created in Ember?

a)

Daycare workers

b)

Caregivers for the elderly

c)

Trash sifters

31.
What types of foods grew in the greenhouses?  
a)
Tropical fruits
b)
Wheat and grains
c)
Vegetables
32.
What happened to Sadge?
a)
Sadge went outside the lighted areas of Ember and became frightened.
b)
Sadge fell off the ladder while working on the sprinkler system in the greenhouse and cut his hands.
c)
Sadge ran into a wild animal in the trash heap and was hurt trying to escape from it.
33.
Why were the people in Ember in such a panic?  
a)
The people of Ember were afraid of the wild animals that lived outside the city.
b)
The people of Ember were running out of supplies.
c)
The people of Ember were afraid the city would flood with the next rain
34.
Lina dreamed of ______________.    
a)
Singing in a traveling band
b)
Her parents coming back home
c)
A bright city
d)
Working in the greenhouses
35.

What did Mrs. Murdo do to help Lina's family?

a)

Mrs. Murdo cleaned and cooked for Lina, Granny, and Poppy

b)

Mrs. Murdo took Granny to the market.

c)

Mrs. Murdo helped Lina deliver the messages.

36.

Lina saw Sadge...

a)

painting his front door.

b)

selling colored pencils at his shop.

c)

yelling to the people of Ember about the Unknown Regions.

37.

The man selling the pencils, Looper, was familiar to Lina because...

a)

He worked in the greenhouse with Clary.

b)

He was the man who used Lina to send a message to the mayor.

c)

He was Doon's brother.

d)

He went to school with Lina and Doon.

38.

How many pencils did Lina buy?

a)

None. They cost too much.

b)

One - was all she could afford.

c)

Two - she spent too much but just had to have them.

d)

All of them - the dozen or so that were in the box.

39.

While buying the pencils Poppy...

a)

ate candy.

b)

wandered out of the shop.

c)

broke the vase.

d)

chewed on the blanket.

40.

While looking for Poppy...

a)

the lights went out.

b)

Lina fell and cut her hands.

c)

Lina broke her pencils when she ran into the stone wall.

d)

A man stole Lina's pencils.

41.
8. How long was the blackout?  
a)
7 minutes
b)
3 minutes
c)
2 minutes
d)
10 minutes
42.
After Mayor Cole's speech the people of Ember felt ________.  
a)
Angry
b)
Calm
c)
content
d)
excited
43.
When Lina got home from the speech Granny was _____.   a)  b) c) 
a)
Cooking potato soup  
b)
Nowhere to be seen  
c)
Going through the closet 
44.

Poppy found ______. Granny's left shoe

a)

Lina's lost drawings

b)

A box with printed paper inside

c)

Photographs of their mother and father

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