Show:
Hailsham
The Cottages
Life as a Carer
Donation Logistics
Miscellaneous
100
How do the guardians treat the students?
They are extremely kind, caring and understanding.
100
Does Keffers appear to like the students living at the Cottages?
No, most of the time he is grouchy and irritable, but occasionally he will be sort of helpful.
100
Does Kathy enjoy being a carer?
Yes, she does. Some days are very difficult, like with everything, but most days she is very content doing it.
100
How many donations is the average donor expected to give?
Three
100
Who ran Hailsham?
Miss Emily.
200
Which guardian tells Tommy that it doesn't matter that his artwork isn't very good and he should stop worrying so much about it, and then later takes back this statement?
Miss Lucy
200
What do the veteran couples often base their interactions with each other on?
They many times base their interactions with each other on T.V. shows they've seen or movies.
200
Why do carers do so much traveling?
They have to drive all over England to visit all of their donors, who are in different recovery centers, a few times each week.
200
When a donor dies after a donation, what is this called?
Completing.
200
In Hailsham, what are tokens used for?
They are used to by other students' work at the Sales throughout the year.
300
Why was Tommy often picked on and teased?
He was often picked on and teased, because the other kids could count on getting a reaction out of him.
300
When Kathy takes that trip to Norfolk with Chrissie, Rodney, Ruth and Tommy, what does the group try to find while there?
They try to find Ruth's possible.
300
After Ruth completes, who does Kathy become carer to?
Tommy.
300
What are the duties of a carer?
To be a companion to the donors. They talk with them, bring them treats, speak with the donor's doctors and nurses. They are there to try and make the end of the donor's life as pleasant as possible.
300
Why were people cloned so that they could donate their organs?
Scientist found out that it was not possible to grow human organs in a lab, and that they could only be taken from a living human being. They decided that cloning was the best way to eradicate diseases while not killing real human beings.
400
Why did Kathy try so hard to hide her tape from everyone at Hailsham?
Two reasons. First, students at Hailsham don't have many belongings, and what they do have, they are often very protective of. The tape was very special to Kathy, and she wanted it to be her own, private thing. Second, on the case, there was the singer smoking a cigarette, and everyone was always lectured on the dangers of smoking, and how they should never do it. Kathy didn't want to get in trouble, so she kept it to herself.
400
What will Ruth and Kathy often do together late at night?
They will make cups of tea, bring them up in to one of their tiny bedrooms and talk until the early hours of the morning.
400
What rumor goes around that Ruth clings on to in the last few months of her life?
The rumor is that if a couple can show they are truly in love, they can be given extra time before doing their donations. First Ruth wants this for herself, and then later for Kathy.
400
Do donors know their carers, before they became their carers?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When a carer is doing a particularly good job with their donors, they might given the option to choose some of their donors, and will sometimes pick people who they knew from earlier in their life.
400
For what was the real purpose of the Gallery?
Marie-Claude and Miss Emily used to go around to conventions showing people the students artwork and writing in a effort to prove to the world that these clones did have souls.
500
How did the idea come about, that when something was lost, it meant that it was in Norfolk?
In class, the students learned about the different areas of England and there was a picture to go along with each area, except for Norfolk. They were always told however, that it was in an odd area on the coast, so that it was often bypassed by travelers; a sort of "lost corner" was a phrase used many times to describe it.
500
What does Ruth do when Kathy talks with her about Hailsham, to make Kathy feel excluded, childish and stupid?
Ruth pretends to forget things about Hailsham, that Kathy knows she remembers perfectly well.
500
Why does Kathy request to be Ruth's carer?
She requests this, because well on the road between recovery centers, she met up with one of her Hailsham friends and the friend mentioned to her the ideas, which she had already been considering for a while.
500
Why are certain people donors, and others aren't?
The donors are clones of other, regular people, and most of them grow up in often times cruel government centers without any family or interaction outside of that facility.
500
Did Ruth and Kathy ever really have a true friendship, or was it act for personal gain.
I think in some instances it was, and in others it wasn't. I believe that all Ruth really ever wanted, was to be admired and praised by the people around her, but the pair did have some genuine caring moments between the two of them.