Organ donation sometimes takes place when a patient's brain no longer functions, but the body is kept on life support. This statement gives some context for which of the following concerns?
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Madame worries about touching the clones
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Ruth is convinced that their "possibles" were not respectable citizens
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Tommy and Kathy worry about the importance of creativity
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Tommy and the other donors worry about the meaning of "completion"
Q.2.
Which one of the following is related to the "Morningdale scandal" which eventually causes the closure of Hailsham?
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Eugenics
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IVF
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Immigration
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Misogyny
Q.3.
Kathy worries that other carers might be envious of her bedsit. Why is this significant?
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Kathy feels sorry for herself
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A bedsit is an extravagantly luxurious form of accommodation
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Kathy is deluded in thinking that any other carers might be jealous of her
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To be so grateful for a bedsit implies that a person has very low expectations of life
Q.4.
When was first published?
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1985
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1995
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2005
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2015
Q.5.
Which of the following historical events is most closely linked to the context for the cloning program in the novel?
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The birth of the first "test tube" baby in 1978
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The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996
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The closure of Hailsham School in 1992
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All of the above
Q.6.
Kathy's description at the end of the novel of the rubbish caught up in a barbed wire fence can easily be imagined since it is a familiar sight across Britain, especially in windy sites. What might this familiar image represent?
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The freedom of young people to decide their own futures
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The revision of history through focussing only on negative events
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Britain's loss of self-belief
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Society's creation of - and wilful blindness to - rubbish
Q.7.
Why is the very ordinary setting of this novel significant?
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It reminds the reader of the unpleasantness of late-twentieth-century Britain
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Readers always better enjoy novels with comfortable settings
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It challenges the reader to consider whether atrocities take place every day while people look away
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A novel can only be considered "dystopian" if it takes place in a familiar environment
Q.8.
The clones are trained to be entirely selfless. Which of the following terms best expresses this aspect of their education and expectations of themselves?
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Creative
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Carer
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Veteran
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Completing
Q.9.
With its sports pavilion, large grounds and dormitories, Hailsham resembles which of the following?
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A British private school
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A prison
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A university
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A small village
Q.10.
Why is the outside world afraid of the clones?
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The clones might rebel against the purpose society has assigned them
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The clones confront the world with their humanity
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The clones could have been created as genetically superior
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All of the above
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