Feed

Part 1: MOON

Reading Check

1. Boredom (Chapter 1: “Your Face Is Not an Organ”)

2. His talent at games (Chapter 2: “Impact”)

3. A gray wool dress (Chapter 3: “Juice”)

4. Quendy’s lesion (Chapter 4: “The Nose Grid”)

5. Touches a device to their necks (Chapter 5: “The Moon Is in the House of Boring”)

Short Answer

1. Titus thinks that space is too silent and feels old. He believes traveling through space without his friends to fill the silence with noise would be intolerable. (Chapter 1: “Your Face Is Not an Organ”)

2. Violet tells the others she believes the nose and cheeks make a grid across a person’s face, and the farther a lesion is from the center of that grid, the less noticeable it is. Quendy’s is on her forehead, so Violet explains that it frames her face rather than distracting from it. (Chapter 4: “The Nose Grid”)

3. They can’t find anything that they want to buy, but they feel the need to buy things anyway. Marty orders a shirt online, but he doesn’t like the shirt.

4. Titus complains that both the moon and Mars are boring, which Violet finds to be a ridiculous claim. Violet’s incredulity annoys Titus, who is used to being bored by everything. (Chapter 5: “The Moon Is in the House of Boring”)

Part 2: EDEN

Reading Check

1. His feed is off. (Chapter 1: “Awake”)

2. A sailboat (Chapter 3: “Boring”)

3. Loga (Chapter 4: “Still Boring”)

4. He invents games. (Chapter 9: “Salad Days, w/ Sneeze Guard”)

5. A squid in love with the sky (Chapter 10: “The Garden”)

6. Read and write (Chapter 11: “Dead Languages”)

Short Answer

1. Titus immediately checks his feed and tries to use different methods of communication, but his feed is disconnected. When none of that works, the last thing Titus does is open his eyes. (Chapter 1: “Awake”)

2. According to Titus, the feed was supposed to be an educational tool. Instead of learning about things in school, people would always have information readily available. (Chapter 5: “Missing the Feed”)

3. Loga describes what is happening on the show for everyone, since she’s the only one who can see it; what surprises Titus is how animated and lively she becomes with her storytelling, which Titus has never seen her do while telling any other stories. (Chapter 9: “Salad Days, w/ Sneeze Guard”)

Part 3: UTOPIA

Reading Check

1. Calista is dating Link. (Chapter 2: “Undervalued Truffle”)

2. The hacker is dead. (Chapter 9: “Lift”)

3. An air factory (Chapter 10: “A Question of Moral”)

4. A violent uprising (Chapter 13: “Nudging Again”)

5. Link is a clone of Abraham Lincoln. (Chapter 18: “Limbo in Prayer”)

6. Violet calls Quendy a monster. (Chapter 20: “Our Duty to Party”)

Short Answer

1. The president claims that the corporations are not doing anything to cause the skin lesions that have become ubiquitous in the population, which includes Titus and his friends. (Chapter 2: “Undervalued Truffle”)

2. Calista and Loga are wearing the newest fashion trend, which is called Riot Gear and based on real riots from the 20th century. Unlike the others, Violet is aware of the history of the riots and finds it offensive. Students may also say Violet is on edge because she has learned her feed is malfunctioning so badly it will probably kill her. (Chapter 14: “The Real Thing,” Chapter 15: “Fight and Flight”)

3. The beach and everything that once lived there and in the ocean are dead. The atmosphere is so uninhabitable that Titus and Violet must wear protective suits to be there, but Titus still doesn’t want to hear it when Violet brings up the destroyed environment. (Chapter 17: “Seashore”)

Part 4: SLUMBERLAND

Reading Check

1. Violet’s feed efficiency (Various chapters)

2. Quendy is sympathetic and forgiving. (Chapter 5: “86.5%”)

3. The hospital (Chapter 7: “82.4%”)

4. Titus is in mal. (Chapter 11: “76.3%”)

5. He is attracted to a coworker. (Chapter 19: “The Deep”)

6. Buying pants (Chapter 20: “4.6%”)

Short Answer

1. Violet’s efforts to confuse the feed by shopping as randomly as possible have achieved the desired effect. However, making it impossible for the feed to advertise and sell to her efficiently has made her a poor investment for the corporations. (Chapter 12: “76.2%”)

2. Violet lost a year of memory when she had her seizure, and she is terrified of losing more. She sends her memories to Titus for safekeeping until his cache is so full it gives him a headache. Guiltily, Titus deletes them without listening. (Chapter 14: “59.3%”)

Violet wants to experience a last romantic weekend before she dies, and Titus only goes because she makes him feel guilty. Titus is disturbed by Violet touching him because he can only see her as already dead. They fight and decide they hate each other. (Chapter 16: “54.1%”)