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WorksheetsThings We Didn't See Coming (Reading Ch.5-8)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
At the start of chapter 5, what reason does the protagonist give for not working in recent disaster zones?
"The pay is lousy."
"Why expose yourself to a trauma?"
"Bodies always make me feel uneasy."
"I always thought I might find someone I knew, like my father. I'm not sure I could survive seeing him again"
In chapter 5, the protagonist is working in:
Verification
Identification
Validation
Conscription
In chapter 5, Shane is described as having:
Brown eyes
Coarse hands
Tattered clothes
Red hair
In chapter 5, what the name of the article the Protagonist threatened to write about he and Margo was entitled:
It's Not Romantically Ethical
The Chemical Basis for Love
Our Chemicals Still Work
The Physical Basis for Attraction
In chapter 5, as the Protagonist is waiting at the bus stop thinking of "every halfway I love you ever spoken", the moon is described as being like:
Sulfur
Mercury
Carbon
Phosphorous
At the beginning of chapter 6, what is the Narrator doing as Juliet arrives?
Renewing his relationship permit
A masculinity initiative
Completing documents for verification
Sipping on a glass of wine he procured in chapter 3
In chapter 6, as Juliet is arguing with the Narrator about male infertility a dignitary arrives who identifies Juliet as:
A Minister
A Parliamentarian
A Congressman
A Senator
In chapter 6, the Narrator recalls time spent with Juliet on a private islands where they:
Had a passionate sexual relationship
Consumed a black fungus that got them high
Engaged a contracted government agent to release food to refugees
Went to a flesh club where the Narrator had his first extra-union affair
In chapter 6, there is a change of rules to a union contract. The change states that:
Female partners can now request separation on their own
A union must now only contain male and female participants
A union can now contain two or more people
Sex is now permissible within a relationship
In Chapter 6 during a dinner, Juliet gives the Narrator and Margo pills which are normally:
A strong anti-depressant
An anti-nightmare medication
A para-psychosis trigger
A form of suicide drug
In chapter 7 we learn that Jeph is:
10 years old
17 years old
9 years old
14 years old
In chapter 7 as the Narrator and Jeph are discussing taking pills, the Narrator is:
Straining yoghurt
Chopping strips of pork
Thinking of a means of escape from the community
Peeling chickpeas
In chapter 7 as the Narrator and Jeph are fixing a door, Jeph perceptibly notices that:
The Narrator cannot stand up straight
The community in which they live is a cult
The Narrator is lying
The Narrator wants to escape to the city
In chapter 7, what prompts the Narrator to jump from the car?
Paranoia about his safety
His fatigue with Jeph
His fear at Jeph not wanting to return to the community
He is fulfilling his promise to Juliet from the previous chapter
At the end of chapter 7 as the Narrator walks away, he is covered up to his ankles in:
"Oily, black mud"
"my own blood"
"filthy, black water"
"coarse, desert sand"
At the beginning of chapter 8, the Narrator opens by saying that mayors:
"were hung-drawn and quartered"
"exiled without food or water to the mercy of the wastelands"
"flagellated before being flayed alive"
"burnt in grim fires for their failures"
At the beginning of chapter 8, when the Narrator arrives at the base, the guard officer gives the Narrator
A river-stone for luck
A key for a locker
A whispered password for the next security gate
A look of total despair
In chapter 8, the Narrator is welcomed to the stage by an overweight administrator named:
Karune
Koruna
Karuna
Karino
In chapter 8, the context of the chapter is that there is a new:
Source of food for people
Political regime in power
Drug to cure psychosis
City which has been discovered
At the end of chapter 8, as Francis explains the vetting process, he points to a sensory image of the Narrator that is:
Pink and blue
Orange and gold
Blue and green
Magenta and gold
