The City of Ember - Chapter 20 The Last Message

Why is the beginning of Chapter 20 italicized?
1. They are words from the book Poppy found.
2. Lina and Doon are so excited they are shouting.
3. The words are from a sign the Builders left in the "new city".
The trainer said the old people to bring no ______ with them to the new city.
1. calendars
2. appliances
3. books or photographs
The plan was to assure that ___________________.
1. a new culture would emerge for scientists to study
2. people would not disappear from earth
3. criminals would not harm the children
What is life like on Earth during the time journal was written?
1. Disaster seemed very close.
2. Nothing had changed for generations.
3. War was raging.
4. A comet was heading for Earth.
______________ men, women, and babies were sent to Ember.
1. Two hundred
2. 200
The names of the new babies heading for Ember were ______________.
1. Adam and Eve
2. Peter and Mary
3. Star and Forest
4. Heaven and Earth
The journal helped Lina and Doon learn ________________.
1. that this was the correct year to return
2. that they came from Earth
3. what they were to do next
Doon and Lina had never before seen _______________.
1. animals
2. gardens
3. roads
What did Lina and Doon see as they looked over the cliff in the cave?
1. only darkness
2. the river
3. Ember
What did Lina and Doon do while they looked over at the city of Ember?
1. waved their candle so someone would see the light
2. threw down the message they had written to Clary
3. shouted to the people below
Who found the message from Lina and Doon?
1. Mrs. Murdo
2. the Mayor
3. Looper
4. the Chief Guard
Why do you suppose the author, Jeanne DuPrau, chose to use the journal format in Chapter 20?
1. Electronic devices such a tape or CD players would no longer work after 200 years.
2. Telling the story in journal format was the only reasonable way for Lina and Doon to learn about events that had taken place 200 years earlier.
3. The journal was an impersonal means of relaying information to Doon and Lina.
Based on the last chapter of The City of Ember, it is likely that in the sequel ______________.
1. Doon and Lina will be lost from their friends and family forever
2. Poppy will love living above ground
3. the Earth will face additional catastrophes in the future
4. the Emberites will leave Ember by the same route as Lina and Doon
From which point of view is this passage written?

I went to the train station yesterday evening, as they told me to, and got on the train they told me to take. It took us through Spring Valley, and I gazed out the window at the fields and houses of the place I was saying goodbye to-my home.
1. first
2. second
3. third, omniscient
4. third, objective
Read these events from Chapters 19-20.

1) Lina, Doon, and Poppy observe the strange and wonderful world around them.
2) Lina and Doon watch the sun rise.
3) Lina snd Doon climb out of the tunnel into the open field.
4) Lina and Doon decide to read the journal.

Which sequence best describes the order of events in these chapters?
1. 1, 2, 3, 4
2. 2, 4, 1, 3
3. 3, 1, 2, 4
4. 3, 2, 1, 4

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