Uglies Chapters 41-50

Question 1

What delays David and Tally for three days?

Answer 1

a hurricane

Question 2

Why is David worried that they won’t arrive in time to save his parents?

Answer 2

Each day the hurricane delayed them, he’s concerned that his parents have already had the reversal Pretty surgery

Question 3

How are the Rusty Ruins not as scary to Tally as they were just a month before?

Answer 3

They seem to have shrunk

Question 4

David is convinced Shay will forgive Tally. Why does Tally know that won’t happen?

Answer 4

Tally knows that Shay has already guessed that Tally has betrayed The Smoke

Question 5

How do Tally and David plan to break into Special Circumstances Headquarters?

Answer 5

David says they can ride their hoverboards from the bottom of the hill, “zoom up at maximum speed, then jump off from about” a certain spot. Tally says they can do it safely if they have bungee jackets.

Question 6

Where are David and Tally going to find bungee jackets?

Answer 6

Uglyville Art School

Question 7

How long has it been since the invasion of The Smoke?

Answer 7

Two weeks

Question 8

How did Sussy, An, and Dex learn about The Smoke?

Answer 8

They had heard rumors about The Smoke for years, since an Ugly in their dorm had run away.

Question 9

Why doesn’t Tally want to admit that The Smoke has been destroyed?

Answer 9

She doesn’t want the truth of the invasion to get out, because Dr. Cable’s “work” would be complete, even if another Smoke community was created. She decides to tell them that it doesn’t actually exist because it has to stay secret.

Question 10

What do David and Tally want the three new Uglies to do?

Answer 10

Make a diversion so David and Tally can get into Special Circumstances Headquarters

Question 11

What words do the hundreds of sparklers form?

Answer 11

THE SMOKE LIVES

Question 12

How is this fall in the bungee jacket different for Tally than the time she jumped from the party tower in New Pretty Town?

Answer 12

She knew what to expect, and she wasn’t escaping from the tower, but breaking into it.

Question 13

Why does David not want to check the morgue?

Answer 13

He doesn’t want to find his parents there.

Question 14

Why do the names on the door convince Tally that the Smokies must be on the bottom floor of Special Circumstances Headquarters?

Answer 14

Because both David and Tally figure that Dr. Cable would put her prisoners on the bottom floor, in the dungeon.

Question 15

Why does Tally tell David to avoid the eye reader?

Answer 15

Because if it thinks it sees an eye, it will read your iris and then check with the big computer.

Question 16

What does David do to Dr. Cable?

Answer 16

He hits her in the head with his powerjack

Question 17

What happened to Shay?

Answer 17

She had been given the Pretty operation

Question 18

Why was Shay forced to have the Pretty operation?

Answer 18

She was being the most trouble, “kicking and biting,” according to Shay

Question 19

What has the operation done to Shay’s mind?

Answer 19

She says that she’s relieved, and that she likes it in New Pretty Town

Question 20

Who is rescued by David and Tally?

Answer 20

Maddy, David’s mother, and Croy

Question 21

What happened to Az, David’s father?

Answer 21

The Specials killed him

Question 22

What does Maddy ask Tally to do in order to throw the Specials off their trail?

Answer 22

Drop a piece of her jumpsuit’s fabric, which has a tracker in it, to throw the Specials off their trail

Question 23

Why has Shay forgiven Tally?

Answer 23

She doesn’t realize that the surgery has caused her to have brain damage, and she thinks that her life now is better than what she lived in The Smoke

Question 24

Why is Tally crying at the end of this chapter?

Answer 24

Because she feels badly about having betrayed The Smoke, and she feels as if she has ruined Shay’s dream.

Question 25

What does Croy tell Tally and Shay about the escape?

Answer 25

Maddy told them to all go different ways, and that they were to meet back up at the Ruins.

Question 26

Why does Maddy want to spend some time alone with David?

Answer 26

She has been worried about him, since they’ve been separated

Question 27

What does Dr. Cable’s work tablet reveal?

Answer 27

All Dr. Cable’s notes on making pretties into Specials, not just the physical part, but how the brain lesions work.

Question 28

What rumors are the Smokies spreading to the Uglies in Uglyville?

Answer 28

That the pretty operation changed not only your face, but your personality - the real you inside, was actually the price of beauty.

Question 29

Why is Maddy staying away from the rest of the Smokies?

Answer 29

She is working on the cure for the brain lesions.

Question 30

Why is Shay happy about being a Pretty?

Answer 30

She says that she likes the way she looks, and that she’s happier in her new body. She says that she feels “bubbly,” and that it’s nice to not be “raging with hormones.”

Question 31

Why doesn’t Shay want to think like an Ugly again?

Answer 31

Because, in her mind, being ‘cured’ means being jealous, self-important, and whiny.

Question 32

Why won’t Maddy force Shay to take the treatment pills against her will?

Answer 32

Because they aren’t definitely certain if the pills will work.

Question 33

What is Tally willing to do at the end of this chapter (48)?

Answer 33

Tally is willing to take the pills, and allow them to test them on her.

Question 34

Why is David upset with Tally’s decision to become a Pretty?

Answer 34

Because the pills have a one percent chance to leave someone a “vegetable,” and he doesn’t want her to take the chance.

Question 35

Why does Tally finally tell David the truth?

Answer 35

She feels obligated to do what she can because of her being a spy for Dr. Cable, Shay having the surgery, and for Az being killed.

Question 36

Why didn’t Maddy tell David the truth about Tally?

Answer 36

Because David needed Tally to help him through escaping from the Specials, and the possibility of his parents and friends being killed.

Question 37

Why does Maddy want Tally to write that she wants the experimental treatment?

Answer 37

So that, after the surgery, Tally would be able to read her own words and know what was about to happen to her.

Question 38

Why is Tally worried that the surgery will change her feelings for David?

Answer 38

She is afraid that the surgery will cause her feelings to change, and that she will forget how David made her feel when she was an Ugly.

Question 39

What happens to Tally and Shay at the end of the novel?

Answer 39

They encounter a warden, and Tally ends up telling the warden that she wants to be made a Pretty.