Describe in detail the city of Ember, from how it looks to how it operates. Analyze the chapter titles and dissect what they could allude to. Explain what we as readers discover about Ember when Doon visits the library. Answer comprehension questions about events in the book surrounding Doon’s investigation in the tunnels. The City of Ember Final Test-Study Guide The final test has fill in the blank summary, matching, multiple-choice, true/false, and sequencing questions related to characters and plot along with fill in the blank and matching vocabulary questions.
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The City of Ember.
The Builders are a coalition of 'professionals' - doctors, scientists and architects, and they have assembled in the city of Ember. Ember is a city built by men who believe that the end of the world is coming shortly, and they have constructed it so that it, and its inhabitants, can survive the apocalypse. The city has amassed supplies for Emberians that will last at least two hundred years.
The first mayor of the city of Ember was given a locked box by the original Builders. Inside the box was a set of instructions for the inhabitants of Ember, and it was supposed to be passed down from one Mayor to the next, like a written tradition. The passing down of the box is completed successfully by six mayors, but the chain is accidentally broken by mayor seven, who tries to open the lock but cannot, and who dies of a deadly cough before he can give the box to anyone or leave notes on why it is so important.
The supplies that were amassed by the Builders at the city's inception last as planned, but as the city nears its two hundred and forty first year, supplies are running low, and the city's generator is outdated and wearing out. To be fair though, it was only designed to run for two hundred years.
The city's young people graduate as usual, despite the general air of concern for the future of the city. After graduation they don't set out down their own career paths but take the jobs that are assigned to them, wanted or not. Lina Mayfleet is assigned the role of Pipeworks Laborer. Doon Harrow is to become a Messenger. Neither is happy with their assignments and wanted the positions that the other was given so they exchange assignments in secret later. However, both Lina and Doon soon have a far more important task at hand than either has been given. Lina's little sister, Poppy, is teething, and as well as this is going through a rather adventurous, boundary setting stage. She discovers the hiding place of the Builders' instructions for Ember, but chews on them because she is teething. Lina asks Doon to help her put them back together, and after much work and fiddly cutting and pasting they reconstruct the chewed up papers. The instructions include the secret of how to leave the city of Ember if needs be.
When Lina and Poppy's grandmother passes away, the girls are sent to live with their neighbor, Mrs Murdo. Still close with Doon, Lina reports one of his co-workers, Looper, for stealing supplies, in cahoots with the current mayor. Meanwhile, they discover all of the things that they are told in the instructions are waiting for them to help them escape the city. They find boats, and a huge supply of candles, which will come in handy now that the mayor has declared them fugitives. Lina is immediately arrested and hauled before the mayor who tells her he is sending her to jail, but befre he can do so there is a blackout, and in the ensuing confusion Lina escapes. She meets up with Poppy and Doon, and the three fugitives take a boat and escape downriver. They find a journal kept by one of the original Builders that explains how Ember came to be. It is illuminating and inspires them to keep going.
As the boat comes to a stop at the end of the river, they climb ashore and undertake an exceptionally steep climb . When they get to the top they realize that they have emerged from under the ground. They have never realized this about Ember before - it is an underground city, and for their whole lives they have lived underground and never known it. Ember seems very small when viewed from above. They tie instructions for escape to a heavy rock, and throw it towards the city hoping that a reputable citizen will find it and follow the instructions to help the other good citizens of Ember escape. There is hope; they cannot know this, because it happens too far under the ground for them to see it, but the rock is found by Mrs Murdo, who unties the message containing the instructions, and begins to read.
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About the Novel:
The City of Ember tells the tale of a society living underground for hundreds of years and the two kids who must bring them into the light. Hundreds of years earlier, a group of people descended underground in hopes to save the human race from extinction. They had enough supplies and power to last them for over 200 years, at which point, instructions on how to return to the surface would be revealed. The only problem is, no one knows these instructions exist, and when they are revealed, they are destroyed. It’s up to Lina and Doon to decipher the few clues they have, locate the way out, and get this news back to their people. But it’s not that easy. In their attempts to find the way out, Lina and Doon stumble on a conspiracy that involves the Mayor and city guards. As such, they are now being hunted as fugitives. Their nearly impossible task just got harder. Now they must race against the clock to escape from Ember with no knowledge of where they are going, and how they can get back to save everyone else.
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