Uglies Chapters 21-30

Question 1

When Tally wakes up, what does she realize is surrounding her?

Answer 1

a fire

Question 2

What started the fire?

Answer 2

lightning

Question 3

How does Tally survive after falling into the water?

Answer 3

She is reunited with her hoverboard

Question 4

Who does Tally meet at the start of this chapter (22), and what is their purpose?

Answer 4

They are “rangers,” and they are pretties who rescue her

Question 5

What is the machine they fly?

Answer 5

a helicopter

Question 6

Why are there so many white flowers?

Answer 6

They’ve overgrown and crowded everything out (invasive species)

Question 7

What is a monoculture?

Answer 7

only one species survives in an area

Question 8

Why do the rangers burn the flowers?

Answer 8

to rid the area of them

Question 9

Where is Tally waiting at the end of this chapter (22)?

Answer 9

on the hill

Question 10

Why don’t the “Smokies” think Tally is a traitor when they find a homing device on her?

Answer 10

Because every board has a homing device on it

Question 11

Why does Croy want Tally’s spagbol?

Answer 11

Dehydrated food is hard to get in the Smoke

Question 12

Why don’t the flowers invade the area around The Smoke?

Answer 12

It has enough species to keep out the weed (the white flower)

Question 13

Why is Tally shocked to find out that the Smokies cut down trees?

Answer 13

because there isn’t a lot of trees left

Question 14

How are the Smokies able to use hoverboards in their settlement?

Answer 14

they pulled up metal from a railroad to make a hoverpath

Question 15

Describe The Boss.

Answer 15

wrinkled, veined, discolored, shuffling, milky eyes

Question 16

Why is Tally shocked by the magazines that Shay shows her?

Answer 16

She’s never seen a variety of faces displayed publicly before

Question 17

How old are the magazines?

Answer 17

over 300 years old

Question 18

Why is Tally shocked at the idea of “work?”

Answer 18

Because work isn’t a thing in her world

Question 19

Why do the younger Smokies remind Tally of Middle Pretties?

Answer 19

they are authorities, and seem to be adults

Question 20

Why does Tally lie and say she’s been traveling for nearly ten days?

Answer 20

She doesn’t want to be caught at what she’s really doing

Question 21

Why is David disappointed by the directions that Shay gave to Tally?

Answer 21

Her code doesn’t seem be good at getting Tally to them (they are bad directions)

Question 22

What work are Shay and Tally doing near the railroad tracks?

Answer 22

Removing roots and vines from the railroad tracks, to then remove the metal rails

Question 23

Why is Tally horrified by David’s leather jacket?

Answer 23

Because it’s real leather and not artificial

Question 24

Why does David want to move rocks in the collapsed tunnel?

Answer 24

because the tunnel might “tumble open” if they move the “exact right boulder.”

Question 25

Why is David glad that Tally is struggling with the idea of life in The Smoke?

Answer 25

She doesn’t think it’s all fun and games, and is taking it seriously

Question 26

What does Tally trade for the sleeping bag and sweater?

Answer 26

Spagbol - 12 packets for the sleeping bag, and another 6 packets for the sweater

Question 27

What “secret” is Tally hiding according to Shay?

Answer 27

That she wanted to run away, but have her “heartthrob” meet up with her

Question 28

Why doesn’t Tally tell Shay the real reason why she is at The Smoke?

Answer 28

Because she knows that she is a spy sent to destroy everything that Shay and David and all the others are there doing, and she doesn’t want to betray her friends

Question 29

How has living in The Smoke changed Tally’s view of what is beautiful?

Answer 29

She is able to forget her troubles, and she is seeing nature as it was intended to be, not “operated on” for beauty

Question 30

What does David suggest they do to the trees growing around the railroad tracks? What does Tally suggest they do instead?

Answer 30

David wants to use vibrasaws to cut them down. Tally suggests to “cut around them” instead.

Question 31

Why is Croy suspicious of Tally’s story?

Answer 31

He has figured out that the amount of food that she shows up with doesn’t equate the amount of days that she claims to have been walking.

Question 32

Why is Shay jealous that David gave Tally a pair of gloves?

Answer 32

Because her hands are just as raw and calloused as everyone else’s, and now that Tally has arrived, David doesn’t talk to Shay as much as he did before she got there.

Question 33

Why does Tally feel like she is a “walking poison” and a “weed?”

Answer 33

She feels as if she is harming all of her friends and people that she encounters, like the white flowers or poison.

Question 34

Why does David think Tally is brave?

Answer 34

He admires her for coming all this way, and he thinks that she has done it because she cares so deeply for Shay.

Question 35

How are Tally’s feelings for David changing her opinion of Uglies?

Answer 35

She is learning to accept people for their hearts, not simply on how they look on the outside.

Question 36

Who does David want Tally to meet?

Answer 36

His parents

Question 37

Why is Tally surprised that David calls his parents mom and dad instead of by their first names?

Answer 37

Because she has been accustomed to calling her parents by their first names, and because that is the custom in Uglyville and New Pretty City.

Question 38

Why is Tally surprised that David looks like Az, his father?

Answer 38

Because of their age difference