The City of Ember - Chapter 20 The Last Message - Pages 258-270

1. Why is the beginning of Chapter 20 italicized?
a) They are words from the book Poppy found.
b) Lina and Doon are so excited they are shouting.
c) The words are from a sign the Builders left in the "new city".

2. The trainer told the old people to bring no ______ with them to the new city.
a) calendars
b) appliances
c) books or photographs

3. The plan was to assure that ___________________.
a) a new culture would emerge for scientists to study
b) people would not disappear from earth
c) criminals would not harm the children

4. What is life like on Earth during the time journal was written?
a) Disaster seemed very close.
b) Nothing had changed for generations.
c) War was raging.
d) A comet was heading for Earth.

5. How many men, women, and babies were sent to Ember. ________________

6. The names of the new babies heading for Ember were ______________.
a) Adam and Eve
b) Peter and Mary
c) Star and Forest
d) Heaven and Earth

7. The journal helped Lina and Doon learn ________________.
a) that this was the correct year to return
b) that they came from Earth
c) what they were to do next

8. Doon and Lina had never before seen _______________.
a) animals
b) gardens
c) roads

9. What did Lina and Doon see as they looked over the cliff in the cave?
a) only darkness
b) the river
c) Ember

10. What did Lina and Doon do while they looked over at the city of Ember?
a) waved their candle so someone would see the light
b) threw down the message they had written to Clary
c) shouted to the people below

11. Who found the message from Lina and Doon?
a) Mrs. Murdo
b) Mayor Cole
c) Looper
d) the Chief Guard

12.  Why do you suppose the author, Jeanne DuPrau, chose to use the journal format in Chapter 20?
a) Electronic devices such a tape or CD players would no longer work after 200 years.
b) 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.
c) The journal was an impersonal means of relaying information to Doon and Lina.

13.  Based on the last chapter of The City of Ember, it is likely that in the sequel ______________.
a) Doon and Lina will be lost from their friends and family forever
b) Poppy will love living above ground
c) the Earth will face additional catastrophes in the future
d) the Emberites will leave Ember by the same route as Lina and Doon

14.  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.

a) first
b) second
c) third, omniscient
d) third, objective

15.  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 and Doon climb out of the tunnel into the open field.
4) Lina dna Doon decide to read the journal.

Which sequence best describes the order of events in this chapter?

a) 1, 2, 3, 4
b) 2, 4, 1, 3
C) 3, 1, 2, 4
D) 3, 2, 1, 4

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1. (a)
2. (c)
3. (b)
4. (a)
5. Two hundred or 200
6. (c)
7. (b)
8. (a)
9. (c)
10. (b)
11. (a)
12. (b)
13. (d)
14. (a)
15. (C)