90 pages 3 hours read

Scott Westerfeld

Uglies

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

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Multiple Choice

1. How does Peris react when he sees Tally for the first time since his surgery?

A) Happily because he missed his best friend

B) Shyly because he worries about what she thinks of him now

C) Angrily because she is crashing his party

D) Exasperatedly because he wants to see her after she gets her surgery

2. Which moment from the text best describes Shay’s attempts to “recruit” Tally to the Smoke?

A) Teaching her to hoverboard

B) Setting a flare to call for David

C) Arguing with her about the pretty surgery

D) Playing pranks on new uglies

3. Why doesn’t Tally activate the heart-shaped tracker as soon as she arrives at Smoke?

A) She secretly wanted to join the Smoke all along.

B) She wants to gather more information for Dr. Cable.

C) She feels guilty for having betrayed Shay in the first place.

D) She thinks David is cute and wants to get to know him.

4. How do Shay’s comments about pretties at the beginning of the novel foreshadow the existence of brain lesions?

A) She claims that they all look alike.

B) She claims that they all act very mature.

C) She claims that they have no individuality.

D) She claims that they are biologically superior.

5. What best describes what hoverboards symbolize?

A) Freedom

B) Immaturity

C) Rebellion

D) Fate

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