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Quiz Questions

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Choose a genre you enjoy:
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  Historical Fiction
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  Magical Realism
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  Memoir-in-Verse
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  Fantasy
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  Novel-in-Verse
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  Realistic Fiction
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  Horror
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  Dystopian
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  Courtroom Thriller
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Choose a food to try:
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  Potatoes
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  Oatmeal
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  Key Lime PIe
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  Crispy Pork Links
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  Chowder in a Bread Bowl
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  Rice and Beans
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  Potato Chips
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  Seafood
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  A South Korean sampler
3.
Choose a time period to visit:
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  Ancient Rome
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  1845
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  1939
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  1974
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  2015
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  15 minutes in the future
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Choose a destination:
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5.
Select an image that appeals to you:
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6.
Where would you like to go to school?
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  A haunted boarding school.
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  My orphanage's all-ages classroom.
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  Any diverse public high school is A-OK!
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  The detention center where I'm unjustly incarcerated.
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  An overseas exchange program.
- F.
  A military academy.
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  Rhode Island School of Design.
7.
Choose your favorite plot feature:
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  Based on a real-life scandal!
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  Welcome to the resistance!
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  A new twist on a classic tale!
- D.
  Well, things just got awkward!
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  I did not see that coming!
- F.
  I'm not a-verse to novels in verse!
8.
Plan an activity for a first date:
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  A popular barbecue restaurant
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  An art or cooking class
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  A spooky graveyard tour
- D.
  A classic movie
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  A Poetry Slam at the coffeehouse
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  A martial arts training session
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  A picnic lunch on the waterfront
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  A basketball game

Quiz Outcomes

1.
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
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An acclaimed debut novel-in-verse! Xiomara Batista, a teen from Harlem, struggles with body image, her first experience with love, her religious mother’s strict rules, and her changing relationship with her twin brother. Desperate to find an outlet for all of her emotions, Xiomara turns to her notebook, where she writes poems and verses. When she’s asked to join her school’s slam poetry club, she knows it could change everything.
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His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler (editor)
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Edgar Allan Poe may be 150 years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Poe’s classic tales, and how they’ve been reimagined in thirteen unique and unforgettable ways by YA’s most celebrated voices.
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Internment by Samira Ahmed
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Forced into an internment camp for Muslim-American citizens in a near-future United States, 17-year old Layla Amin helps forge an alliance of new friends and outside sympathizers before becoming the leader of a revolution against the camp's corrupt guards … and complicit silence.
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SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson
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This memoir in verse shares the author’s life, covering her struggles in early childhood, her rape at thirteen, a transformative exchange year in Denmark, and her experiences writing and publishing Speak.
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Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
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Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined.
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Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
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Deep in rural Virginia, there's an experimental medical device called the Miracle Submarine or HBOT, a pressurized oxygen chamber in which patients take therapeutic "dives" that could cure them of issues like autism or infertility. Then the device explodes, killing two people, and one of the Miracle Submarine clients is charged with murder, suspected of targeting her own autistic son. Miracle Creek takes place over the tense week of the trial, as complicated secrets between the HBOT owners, Young and Pak Yoo, and their clients emerge and change everything.
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Dig by A.S. King
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The Shoveler carries a snow shovel everywhere. CanIHelpYou? sells pot at the Arby’s drive-thru window. Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress carries her flea circus in a lunchbox. First-Class Malcolm buys a, yes, first-class ticket to Jamaica between cancer treatments. And The Freak offers prophetic messages. These are the five teenagers whose stories are interwoven with seemingly unconnected people in their small Pennsylvania town. Dig is a unique gut-punch of a novel that centers on some realistic, truthful, and sometimes painful teen issues.
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
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In this witty debut, 16-year-old black French-Canadian Norris Kaplan must navigate life and love in Austin, Texas, after he and his mother move there. He views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie.” This humorous look at what we learn about ourselves by observing others is a fantastic back-to-school read for contemporary fiction fans.
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All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
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Rashad is absent again today … When 16-year old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
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Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
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Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
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Learning that her grandmother was a victim of the corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society, attorney and aspiring politician Avery Stafford delves into her family's past and begins to wonder if some things are best kept secret.

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