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Multiple Choice
1. How would you characterize Titus in comparison to Link and Marty?
A) Titus is the constant risktaker of the group.
B) Titus is endlessly competitive with the boys.
C) Titus is the most reflective and introvertive.
D) Titus is a born leader whom the others follow.
2. Which factor most likely causes Titus’s boredom with everything, including the moon?
A) His feed is full of glitzy advertisements.
B) Titus has experienced all of it too many times.
C) He secretly hates spending time with his friends.
D) He has developed multiple lesions on his brain.
3. What can readers infer from the presence of the skin lesions?
A) The characters are teens.
B) The environment is toxic.
C) They are all drug addicts.
D) They’ve contracted the virus.
4. Why is Titus most likely so annoyed by the sailboat painting?
A) Swimming is not a common skill, and it makes him anxious.
B) Sailboats don’t exist anymore, and Titus only likes real things.
C) It requires imagination, and Titus is accustomed to the feed.
D) The style of the painting is too abstract, and it confuses him.
5. What is implied by the doctor and other patients getting angry at Titus and his friends in the hospital?
A) The doctor treats the teens badly because they aren’t paying for care.
B) The hospital isn’t properly equipped to deal with cases as severe as theirs.
C) The teens are acting out because they are used to constant entertainment.
D) The boys are getting in trouble because they are trying to impress Violet.
6. How is Violet’s comment about their time shared in the hospital being their salad days an example of foreshadowing?
A) Violet’s health starts to decline from that moment.
B) Violet and Titus are about to fight and break up.
C) Violet will be killed on the space shuttle back to Earth.
D) They don’t know that their feeds are permanently gone.
7. Violet decides to kiss Titus because she is impressed with ____________ as compared to his friends.
A) His attractiveness
B) His compassion
C) His confidence
D) His language
8. Which incident in the narrative offers a clue as to why Titus tells Violet repeatedly that he doesn’t want to know negative or unpleasant things about her health or the world?
A) Titus describes his mother’s cancer.
B) Titus learns the hacker died.
C) Titus nearly dies in an upcar crash.
D) Titus cries when he sees a sad movie.
9. Based on the depiction of Smell Factor, how does the feed affect the development of the current generation of children?
A) It makes them easier to control and parent.
B) It educates them so they become eerie little geniuses.
C) It takes away their abilities to sing and talk aloud.
D) It stunts them by offering constant stimulation.
10. What does Violet’s relationship with her father suggest about the feed when compared to Titus’s relationship with his father?
A) The feed teaches people to be better parents.
B) The feed helps family members to communicate.
C) The feed is only useful when the whole family has it.
D) The feed alienates family members from each other.
11. How does the feed avoid the fallout when the consequences of the corporations’ greed reach the public?
A) It makes everyone too afraid to talk about it.
B) It turns the problem into a fashion statement.
C) It erases everyone’s memories of the issue.
D) It invents a convenient scapegoat to blame.
12. How does Quendy demonstrate that she is more empathetic and emotionally present than Titus and the rest of his friends?
A) She stands up to Calista and defends Violet.
B) She takes care of Titus when he goes into mal.
C) She starts a romantic relationship with Titus.
D) She tells Titus that Violet needs his support.
13. What does Violet discover when she starts downloading funeral music?
A) She is susceptible to the feed’s marketing.
B) She hates all the funeral music she hears.
C) She has lost her ability to hear higher notes.
D) She doesn’t know what she likes anymore.
14. Why does Titus run away from Violet and finally reject her at the hotel?
A) Violet confesses she is actually in love with Link.
B) Her needs are too emotionally intense for him to handle.
C) Titus makes the decision that he needs to join the army.
D) Titus admits he thinks Violet isn’t smart enough for him.
15. What does Titus decide he can do for Violet at the end of the novel?
A) Pay for her feed repair
B) Wake her up and save her
C) Speak to her in her dreams
D) Keep her memory alive
Long Answer
Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.
1. How does Titus’s description of space travel give insight into his character?
2. What causes Titus to notice Violet and become infatuated with her?
3. How does Titus’s romanticizing of the feed demonstrate the way it brainwashes its users?
4. What is the significance of language in bringing Titus and Violet together?
5. How do the party and Titus’s friends dash the hopes and expectations Violet expresses on the ride there?
6. What does Titus’s conception and genetic makeup reveal about what is valued by his parents and society at large?
7. As Violet’s health fails, what does she want from Titus, and why is it too much for him to give?
8. How does Violet’s father manage to finally awaken Titus emotionally, and what is the result?