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The Testing Of The United Commonwealth

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Charbonneau, Joelle. The Testing. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Kane, Jenny. Student laughs with fellow classmates on graduation. Penn Live, PA Media Group, 6 June 2011, www.pennlive.com/. Accessed 30 Jan. 2017. Event 1: Malencia (Cia) Vale from the Five Lakes Colony of the United Commonwealth is about to graduate from high school. She enters graduation hoping to be chosen for The Testing, a series of tests in Tosu City where high school graduates go to in order to get into the University and later get a job. At the end of graduation, no government official for The Testing shows up. The next morning, a messenger informs her to meet the magistrates as soon as possible. When Cia arrives, she meets three other fellow …show more content…

The candidates then had to eat the ones they considered safe or “suffer the consequences”. Next, students are given a box and have to fix a broken pulse radio. While Malachi, one of the candidates from Five Lakes, was working on his radio a nail shot him in the eye. The candidates were instructed not to help and continue working. Cia began to resent the officials for their test but she could not do anything about it. The group continues doing their tests while facing the consequences of injury or death. Later that day, the candidates face the third test which is a group problem solving task. Event 6: The candidates learn about their fourth test which is a survival challenge. The candidates have to find their way back to Tosu City from a dead zone hundreds of miles away. Cia and Tomas promise each other to meet at the highest point that they can see. Cia meets Michal again where he instructs her to pick three items that she can add to the bag she brought with her. She chooses a water purification kit, a loaded handgun, and a first aid kit. Event 7: Over lunch, Michal confronts Cia on how he disagrees with The Testing and its deadly methods and how he and some others are trying to change it. Michal gives Cia some words of encouragement as she realizes that she was drugged. She wakes up in a cell with some food that she takes and begins her journey back to

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