Q 01/05

In The Last Book in the Universe, which condition gets the narrator Spaz cast out by his foster family?

A) Asthma

B) Epilepsy

C) Diabetes

D) Blindness

Answer · why

B) Epilepsy

Epilepsy also sets Spaz apart in a useful way: it keeps him off the brain-rotting entertainment that everyone around him is hooked on.

Q 02/05

In The Last Book in the Universe, what devices let Urb dwellers escape reality through images in the head?

A) Mind probes

B) Dream chips

C) Skull jacks

D) Trance visors

Answer · why

A) Mind probes

Mind probes work like hard drugs in the Urb, giving users a brief way out of their ruined lives while doing them lasting damage.

Q 03/05

In The Last Book in the Universe, what kind of disaster devastated the world decades before the story begins?

A) A nuclear war

B) A global plague

C) An earthquake

D) An asteroid strike

Answer · why

C) An earthquake

An earthquake that survivors call the Big Shake left the Urb plagued by poverty, thieves and gang warfare.

Q 04/05

In The Last Book in the Universe, which once-treatable illness does Ryter diagnose in Bean?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Pneumonia

C) Malaria

D) Leukemia

Answer · why

D) Leukemia

Leukemia had a known treatment before the collapse, but the Urb has lost that knowledge, so Bean's only hope lies in Eden.

Q 05/05

In The Last Book in the Universe, what news makes Spaz defy his gang boss and cross the Urb?

A) His sister is dying

B) Eden has opened its gates

C) Ryter has been kidnapped

D) A rival gang is attacking

Answer · why

A) His sister is dying

His sister is dying and has asked to see him, so Spaz sets out with Ryter and a five-year-old orphan for company.