Summary
Brilliant students throughout the country hoped to be chosen for The Testing: passing The Test is their one chance at education at university and becoming a government official. Almost immediately after Cia Vale is chosen to take The Test, her father tells her about his Testing experience. How everyone's memory was be wiped after Testing was completed. And how he still has gruesome nightmares of he believes occurred during The Testing. When Cia finally arrives in the Capital along 107 other Testing candidates and the fight for a spot at the university turns into a bloodbath, she begins to wonder what she has gotten herself into.