Chapters 1 - 4

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1. Explain what Kayla finds out about her scholarship to an art school.  What impact could this have on her future?

2. Explain the significance of the Bar Code.  Explain why Kayla believes her parents have accepted the bar code.

3. Explain what Kayla tells Amber the scholarship. 

4. Explain why Kayla skips the rest of school that day. Where does she go? 

5. Explain what Gene tells Kayla when she arrives home. .

6. The paramedics put her father in the ambulance, barely alive. Explain what caused this to happen to him. 

7. Explain what the authorities call what happened to her father.

8. Explain what happens to Kayla as she tries to  remove the bloodstains from the bathtub.

9. Explain what her mother tells her in the vision. 

10. Why does the author put Gene outside her house at this time in the story? 

11. Give a profile of Gene. Why is he an important character at this point in the novel?  

12. Explain what Gene plans to do. 

13. Explain what Amber gives Kayla and why she refuses it. 

14. Explain what Amber says about Mfumbe and a group of his friends.

15. Explain what Mfumbe asks Kayla and Amber to sign.

16. What does the group called DeCode say about the bar code?

17. Explain what the football players say to Mfumbe and others as they hand out flyers.

18. When the fight breaks out, what does the principal tells them?

19. The article says that the President of the United States also owns a company called Global-1. Explain why this is significant or important. 

20. What is Global-1? Explain why it is significant.  

21. Explain why the farmers are, therefore, dependent on Global-1 for seeds.

22. Explain a danger mentioned in one of the articles about the bar code. 

23. Explain what Senator David Young has proposed.