The 3 main characters were Cia Vale, Tomas Endress, and Will. Cia and Thomas came from 5 lakes colony and fell in love half way through the final examination, and Will showed up and at first he was good but in the final examination he ended up almost killing Tomas and he turned bad. Tomas started as a cool confident young man and developed in the first section. The second and third sections he slowly turns more into what the Testing officials want him to be, a monster. By the fourth and final exam he allegedly killed an innocent girl from the same colony him and Cia came from. Out of all the characters Cia changes the least. Being a girl she surprisingly handles the emotions that are thrown at her the best. Despite in the first two sections her room-mate committing suicide, and watching her friend die, she keeps her head on straight and despite her nightmares she pushes it out of her head.
These characters are important because it talks about them a lot. Tomas is described indirectly by the main character Cia as "Not that Tomas isn't used to being looked at. Most girls in our class would spend the entire school day watching him instead of the blackboard." (Pg. 49)
We see Tomas' intelligence in the first section again when Cia observes "Now that Malachi and Zandri are filling the silence, Tomas sits back and only adds the occasional comment. He too is observing - weighing their laughter and their silences." (Pg. 48)
Will and his twin were described by Cia like "I can't help but like them as they tease they should be allowed to take the test together. They point out that everyone says they share the same brain." (Pg. 86)
She later goes on to describe just Will like this "My voice is remarkably steady considering the rage churning in my veins. I finger the trigger of my gun, trying to channel that anger into killing a boy I thought was my friend." (Pg. 280)
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