The City of Ember - Introduction and Chapter 1 - Pages 1 - 16

1. 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

2. ______ was to keep the instructions for leaving the city of Ember.
a) The oldest person in Ember
b) The commissioners
c) The mayor
d) The chief builder

3. What happened to the chief builder's plan for the box?
a) One mayor died before he could tell his successor about the box.
b) The box was broken into, and its contents were stolen.
c) The box was destroyed by a hammer.

4. What was different about the city of Ember?
a) The city was built on an island.
b) In the city the sky was always dark.
c) The weather stayed the same year round in the city of Ember.
d) Everything in the city of Ember was built of steel.

5. 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.

6. Students were assigned to their jobs for _____________ years.

7. Which one of the following job assignments was considered a "bad" job?
a) greenhouse helper
b) timekeeper's assistant
c) messenger
d) pipeworks laborer

8. What condition was the city of Ember in?
a) brand new buildings
b) prospering with many new supplies
c) shortages and blackouts

9. 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 the Pipeworks.

10. The main idea of Chapter I "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.

11.  Sequence these events in the correct order by writing 1 next to the event that occurred first, 2 next to the event that happened second, and so on.

_____________	The chief builder left directions for leaving the city with the first mayor of Ember.
_____________	Lina and Doon trade jobs.
_____________	On assignment day Doon drew the job of messenger.
_____________	The city of Ember was built.

12.  Which statement from this chapter contains a cause-effect relationship?

a) Lina took off her shoes and socks, wrapped herself around the cold metal pole, and climbed up the light pole.
b) Doon wanted to be near the generator, so he traded jobs with Lina.
c) One by one the students reached into the sack and drew out job assignments.
d) In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.

13.  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.

14.  Based on Chapter 1 one could conclude all the following EXCEPT _______________.

a) Chet will fix the generator, and there will be no more blackouts
b) messenger was a fun job because messengers are able to move freely through the city and not have to work behind a desk
c) Ember is a dreary place to live with a dark sky all the time
d) the students were always excited on Assignment Day because they discovered what they would be doing for the next three years

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1. (b)
2. (c)
3. (a)
4. (b)
5. (a)
6. 3
7. (d)
8. (c)
9. (c)
10. (b)
11.  2, 4, 3, 1
12. (b)
13. (c)
14. (a)