Pretties
Scott Westerfeld
Study Guide
By: Tiffany Ellis
Chapter 1 Criminal
1. Look up the word semiformal. (3) What
does it mean?
2. What is a zambonie? (4)
3. Why do the ice skaters have to wear bungee
jackets? (4)
4. Who is “pretty much” the leader of the
crims? (5)
5. What do you think calorie purgers are?(6)
6. What kind of surge (surgery) did Shay get? (9)
7. Why do you think the hole in the wall won’t
make even fake guns? (10)
8. Explain how the wall works. Why do you
think Tally couldn’t recycle her sweater from
the Smoke? (15)
9. Is this Tally the same as the one we knew in
“Uglies”? What is different about her?
Chapter 2 Bash
1. What is the oldest building in New Pretty
Town? (16)
2. What costume was the person Tally kept
seeing at the party wearing? (19)
3. What group is Tally trying to get voted
into?(22)
Chapter 3 Lurker
1. What is a milli-Helen? (24)
2. If Tally hadn’t been introduced to the Crims,
what group would she have tried to join
instead? (24)
3. What was the catch to joining the crims? (25)
4. Why did Tally push away from Zane and
through the crowd? (29)
5. Who was in the Special Circumstances
Costume? (33)
Chapter 4 Fall
1. Why did Croy and Tally run at the beginning
of this chapter? (34)
2. Why did Tally grab Peris and jump over the
balcony? (36)
3. Where did Croy tell Tally he would leave the
old leather pouch? (39)
4. How did the cut on Tally’s head affect her
thinking? (39) (41) (38)
5. What news did Peris give Tally in a ping? (44)
Chapter 5 Zane
1. Who do you think the prince in Tally’s dream
is?(47)
2. How does Zane get his hair so black? (51)
3. How does Zane know Croy? (53,54)
4. Who is Zane talking about meeting in the
Rusty Ruins and why do you think Tally yells,
“Stop!”? (55)
5. When Zane kisses Tally, what name does she
whisper?
Chapter 6 Bubbly-Making
1. Zane tells Tally not to eat and that your heart
beating faster helps what? (61)
2. What does Zane mean when he says he needs
Tally to be bubbly? (61)
3. What does Zane ask Tally at the bottom of page
63?
4. Why can’t Tally remember things from before
the operation? (64)
5. What does Tally remember at the end of this
chapter? (66)
Chapter 7 Valentino 317
1. Why wasn’t there a room 317 in Valentino
Mansion? (72)
2. How did Zane and Tally get on the roof? (73,74)
3. Where did Zane and Tally find Valentino 317?
(77) Describe what they found.
4. Why does the word “key” seem weird to Tally
and Zane? (77)
5. Where does Tally think the key to the padlock
is? (79)
Chapter 8 The High Tower
1. Why does almost falling keep Tally bubbly
while climbing the tower? (84)
2. Why were some of the dates written on the
walls of the shack weird to Tally? (86)
3. What did Tally find in the shack along with
the letter? (87)
4. Who was the letter from? (87)
Chapter 9 Note to Self
1. What does Tally’s letter tell herself she must do?
(90)
2. What does Tally’s letter warn herself might
happen since the cure is an unproven drug? (91)
3. Do you think Tally and Zane made the right
decision when they split the pills? (97) What use
of foreshadowing does the author use to tell the
reader it might not have been a good idea?