The City of Ember - Chapter 5 "On Night Street" & Chapter 6 "The Box in the Closet" Pages 70 - 92

1. What did Mrs. Murdo do to help Lina's family?
a) Mrs. Murdo cleaned and cooked for Lina, Granny, and Poppy.
b) Mrs. Murdo took Granny to the market.
c) Mrs. Murdo helped Lina deliver messages.

2. Lina saw Sadge ______________.
a) painting his front door
b) selling colored pencils at his shop
c) yelling to the people of Ember about the Unknown Regions

3. Looper sold the pencils for _______.
a) 50 cents each
b) $1.00 each
c) $5.00 each
d) $.75 each

4. Lina bought the green and ___________ pencils.

5. While buying the pencils Poppy __________.
a) ate candy
b) left the shop
c) broke the vase
d) chewed on the blanket

6. While looking for Poppy ___________.
a) the lights went out
b) Lina fell and cut her hands
c) Lina broke her pencils when she ran into the stone wall

7. ______________ found Poppy when she was lost.

8. How long was the blackout?
a) 7 minutes
b) 3 minutes
c) 2 minutes
d) 10 minutes

9. What did Mayor Cole say at the town meeting?
a) A new source of energy had been found.
b) Everyone must be patient.
c) The city was running out of supplies.
d) Solutions were being found.

10. After Mayor Cole's speech the people of Ember felt ________.
a) angry
b) calm
c) content
d) excited

11. When Lina got home from the speech Granny was _____.
a) cooking potato soup
b) nowhere to be seen
c) going through the closet

12. Poppy found ______.
a) Lina's lost drawings
b) Granny's left shoe
c) a box with printed paper inside
d) photographs of their mother and father

13. Why do you think Lina was willing to pay the outrageous price for the colored pencils?

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14. Which emotion best describes Lina in Chapter 5 "On Night Street"?

a) worried
b) carefree
c) excited
d) impatient

15.  Jeanne DuPrau used foreshadowing in the prequel to The City of Ember entitled "The Instructions". Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story. Now it looks like Poppy has found a special paper. Do you think she has found the instructions? yes or no

16.  Why do you think Jeanne DuPrau used foreshadowing?

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1. (a)
2. (c)
3. (c)
4. blue
5. (b)
6. (a)
7. Doon
8. (a)
9. (d)
10. (a)
11. (c)
12. (c)
13.  Answers will vary.
14. (a)
15. Answers will vary.
16. Answers will vary.
Jeanne DuPrau probably wanted to build the suspense surrounding the search for the instructions. Being forewarned also gives more importance to this document. The readers probably began guessing that Granny was looking for the instructions two chapters earlier when Granny was tearing up the couch. As we are only a third of the way into the book, there must be additional obstacles for Lina to overcome. Since the box is empty and pieces of paper of strewn all around Poppy, will Lina be able to read the document?