PartialsStudy Questions
Part 1
Chapter 1
1. Where does Kira work?
2. What does she do there?
3. Predict what the Break might have been.
4. What is the Senate?
5. What is the Hope Act?
6. Why are they closing the schools? What is the implication of this on society?
7. What do you know about the Partials so far?
8. Who is attacking the farms?
9. Why has this group split from the others?
Chapter 2
10. Why do you think the people have to do salvage runs?
11. How is the city different from today?
12. What are some of the negatives to living in the new society according to Gianna?
Chapter 3
13. Why were the generators brought on the runs?
14. Why was evaluating medicine before bringing it back to society so crucial?
15. Why does the Senate want to lower the pregnancy age?
16. What are some of the reasons Kira is against the age changes?
17. What does Marcus want if the law is put into place? What about Kira?
Chapter 4
18. What happens at site three?
19. Who are they able to save? Who has died?
20. Who does the group assume has set the bomb?
Chapter 5
21. What problems does the group face in trying to return to East Meadow?
22. What does Jayden decide to do?
23. Where does the group stop?
Chapter 6
24. Who is Owen Tovar’s companion and what does he do?
25. What is Owen Tovar’s history?
26. Why do the soldiers become suspicious of Tovar and what do they decide to do with him?
Chapter 7
27. Who finds the group?
28. Why does the group stop at Dogwood?
29. What happens to Kira when they arrive at the base?
30. Why does Kira dislike Mkele?
31. What is Mkele’s job as he sees it?
32. What does Mkele question Kira about?
Chapter 8
33. Who makes up Kira’s “family”?
34. How did the girls end up together?
35. What does Nandita tell Kira about the purpose of life?
36. What is the one benefit Kira mentions about living after the Break?
37. What has Xochi collected?
38. Who do they find out was kept in custody? Why?
39. Why does Xochi have a problem with the Defense Grid?
40. What news does Madison have?
41. What is Kira’s response to the news?
42. What promise does Kira silently make to the baby?
Chapter 9
43. Why does Kira want Marcus’s blood?
44. What news does Isolde bring from the Senate?
45. Why does Isolde think the Voice is attacking East Meadow?
46. What do the soldiers ask of Nandita?
47. Why do you think the author has Kira become upset about the soldiers’ questions? What comment might he be making about society?
Chapter 10
48. What does Kira discover in Marcus’s blood?
49. What subject does Kira realize they have not studied?
Chapter 11
50. What does Kira ask Dr. Skousen?
51. Why does Kira want to study the Partials?
Chapter 12
52. What happens to Kira’s family during the break? How does she survive?
53. How does Xochi comment about voting connect to you?
54. What does Kira ask of her friends?
55. How does everyone react?
56. What happens with Kira and Marcus? Why?
Part 2
Chapter 13
57. What is their plan to get to Manhattan?
Chapter 14
58. What are some of the obstacles the team faces in the city?
59. What are the pros and cons of checking on the smoke in the building Kira saw?
60. What is the answer Jaylen comes up with regarding the contrasting scout reports?
61. How do they plan to survive the attack on the apartment?
Chapter 15
62. What happens to Kira after the blast?
63. What do they find with Haru?
64. What does Haru want to do? Why?
65. What happens as the group retreats?
66. How is the group able to escape?
Chapter 16
67. What valid points does Mkele make against Kira’s trip to get a partial?
68. What does Mkele plan to do with the partial, and what stops him?
Chapter 17
69. What happens to the group when they return to East Meadow?
70. What is the punishment for each member of the group?
71. How does Kira’s comment on being “treated like adults, not cattle” relate to your modern themes (196)?
Chapter 18
72. What important idea does Xochi bring up?
73. Why do you think the author has Kira fight with her humanity over experimenting with the partial?
74. What does the partial tell Kira about the virus?
Chapter 19
75. What information does Kira get from Marcus?
76. What two thoughts does Kira have about the object in Samm’s blood?
77. What does Kira see out the window?
Chapter 20
78. What does Mkele suggest was a benefit of the Voice attack?
79. How do Senator Delarosa’s and Kira’s view of control differ? Why is this significant?
Chapter 21
80. What does Kira learn about Samm’s physical make-up?
81. Why is the information Samm gives Kira about life after the Isolation War important? What connection can you make to our own history?
82. During Marcus and Kira’s fight about partials, they express two very different perspectives. How is this similar to modern society?
83. What does Marcus ask Kira, and what is her response?
Chapter 22
84. Who does Kira see outside the hospital as she is leaving work? What is happening?
85. What do the nurses tell them needs to be done?
86. What news does Xochi bring?
Chapter 23
87. Do you agree or disagree with East Meadow lowering the Hope Act age to 16? Explain.
Chapter 24
88. Why does Samm say the partials were in Manhattan?
89. What does Kira discover with the blood Shaylon brings her from the maternity ward?
90. What happens while Kira is studying the virus?
91. Who saves Kira’s life?
Chapter 25
92. What problems does Kira face with the virus?
93. What do Mkele and Dr. Skousen do while visiting Kira? Why?
Chapter 26
94. Where does Kira go in the hospital? Why?
95. What does the Senate plan to do with Samm? Why?
96. What does Kira think of the Senate?
97. What does Samm tell the Senate about the partials?
98. What does Kira figure out the Senate is planning to do?
99. What does the Senate ask of Kira, and how does she respond?
Chapter 27
100. What does Kira want from Marcus?
101. Who is missing from the house, and why does it worry Kira?
102. What does Marcus find in the house?
103. How do Xochi and Isolde react to Kira’s request?
104. How does Kira expect to get off the island?
Chapter 28
105. How does the group get into the hospital?
106. Who does Kira’s group encounter outside Samm’s room? What does the other group want?
107. How do they get out of the hospital?
Part 3
Chapter 29
108. What information does the group learn from Samm about the partials?
109. How does the group escape the island?
Chapter 30
110. What does the group learn about the Partial civil war?
111. What problems does the group face trying to get to D Camp?
112. What happens to the group when they hit land?
113. What does Kira learn from Heron?
Chapter 31
114. Where does Kira wake up?
115. How does her current situation parallel Samm’s?
116. What does Kira learn from Dr. Morgan?
Chapter 32
117. What does Kira figure out from watching Dr. Morgan with her research?
Chapter 33
118. Who is able to rescue Kira during the Partial attack?
119. Who goes with the humans?
Chapter 34
120. Where does Samm take the group to escape?
121. What happens to Samm?
Chapter 35
122. Whose house does the group stumble upon?
123. What do they learn about the house’s occupant?
Chapter 36
124. What is Tovar’s plan to get Kira into the city/hospital?
125. What happens on the way back to East Meadow?
126. What do they find when they have reachedthe city gates?
Chapter 37
127. What happens as the group is sneaking into town?
128. What tricks does the group use to get away from the Grid soldiers?
129. What plan does Kira come up with to get into the hospital?
Chapter 38
130. What does Kira do when the group is challenged before entering the hospital?
131. Who stops them in the maternity wing? Why?
132. Who steps in to save them?
Chapter 39
133. What information does Senator Hobb give the community?
134. What has changed about the Senate and the community?
135. What unfortunate news does Kira tell Marcus about the cure?
136. What is Kira planning to do?
137. What does Kira find before she leaves her home?