The Testing

Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. How do Cia’s clothes change at graduation?

2. Who developed the new potato?

3. Who is Cia’s best friend from home?

4. How do Cia and other candidates from her area get to Tosu City for The Testing?

5. How many parts does The Testing have?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How does information about an old law about treason change the candidates’ understanding of The Testing?

2. Why is Cia’s family conflicted about her being chosen for The Testing?

3. Why have no Five Lakes students been chosen for The Testing in years?

Paired Resource

Elizabeth Wathuti's Speech at the United Nations

• This 6-minute video appeals to leaders and the world to address climate change immediately.
• The speech connects to themes of The Environment, Its Destruction, and Human Dependence and Dystopia and Youth Resistance.
• What message about the environment does this speech share with The Testing? How does Cia’s environment resemble the world that Wathuti fears?

“Hope Is the Thing With Feathers”

• This poem by Emily Dickinson compares hope to a bird that “perches in the soul” and keeps many of us warm.