True or False
Ethan understood Jenna because he was also reconstructed and loaded with BioGel.
False.
Who helps Jenna when Dane comes after her outside her house to "talk"?
Mr. Bender
The ethics and consequences of using advanced technology to manipulate human biology.
Who is Jenna's love interest?
Ethan
What are the names of Jenna's parents in the novel?
Claire and Matthew Fox
Allys is the first person to whom Jenna tells her secret.
False
Who spent time in a juvenile detention facility?
Ethan
Who is the protagonist in this novel?
Jenna's mother and father?
Dane?
Why does Ethan think that Allys would report Jenna if she found out about her secret?
Allys would be resentful.
Where does Jenna find the hidden, locked closet?
In her parents' bedroom.
When Jenna finds the computers, a bracket slices her hand open and the blood "gushes" out.
False. Jenna is horrified to find that under her skin is not blood, but a layer of blue Bio Gel.
Who is known as the sociopath?
Dane
Who was Mr. Bender?
Jenna knows he cannot be Clayton Bender, as Mr. Bender was nearly ninety. Clayton admits he took Bender's name when the man died thirty years previously, and with it took over his artistic life.
Name 3 situations why Jenna would have preferred to die that day.
- She has to lie to everyone;
- She doesn't have a soul, or so she thinks;
- Her own grandmother is distant;
- She's expected to be the old Jenna;
What was in said closet?
3 computers
Jenna spent 2 years with Ethan before she passed away.
False. Jenna spent seventy years with Ethan, and now, many years after his death.
Who doesn't want to see Jenna and Ethan in a relationship?
Lily, Jenna's grandmother.
How did Jenna have a child with Ethan?
She arranged for their child to be born through a surrogate.
What do the hidden computers hold?
"The computers are not computers at all—they are backups of brains. There is one for her, one for Locke, and one for Kara."
Allys' parents beg Jenna's father to save their girl.
Jenna named her daughter Kara after her friend who passed away in a car accident.
False. Her daughter's name is Kayla.
Who attempts to help Jenna destroy the computers?
Lily
Does Jenna ever understand why her parents did what they did?
If so, when?
If not, why?
When she arrives from school, Jenna finally understands the lengths a parent would go to for their child. Together, she and Kayla feed the birds.
Why do Jenna's parents have "backup brains of her and her deceased friends?
And what does Jenna want to do with that information?
"Her parents explain that Locke and Kara’s brains could be used to testify for Jenna in a criminal trial."
"Jenna knows she must save Locke and Kara from the limbo-like hell they’re in."
How, exactly, did they recreate Jenna's entire body after she was horribly burned in the accident?
Using the home videos.