Answer:
1. They lived in Chicago for 20 years.
2. I saw a wonderful film in the cinema last night.
3. The sun rose at 6:38 yesterday morning.
4. The sun shined when the climber reached Mount Everest.
5. I promise that I won’t tell this secret to anyone.
6. Unfortunately, just as we got to the airport their plane took off.
7. They go to the movies only once in a while.
8. Sh! Someone is listening to our conversation.
9. I think Bob is leaving for London this very moment.
10. I wake up at 7 every morning but this morning I slept long and I did not get up until 8 o’clock.
11. I am not wearing my watch now because it is being fixed.
12. This is an easy quiz so far.
13. They live in an apartment right now because they can’t find a cheap house.
14. Everyone was asleep when the earthquake hit the small town.
15. He quit his job a couple of years ago.
16. Our daughter did not graduate from the university yet.
17. They did not send any Christmas cards last year.
18. She goes to a doctor once a year for an examination.
19. They were talking about me when I interrupted their conversation.
20. Nothing much happened when I got to the meeting.
22. I made two mistakes in the last quiz.
23. Unfortunately, our team did not win any games last year.
The novels The Maze Runner and The 5th Wave both have the theme of survival. They both surround(focus on) a select group of kids that have leaders with big decisions to make. The Maze runner has to escape a "prison/test" to survive. In the 5th Wave the characters are trying to survive what they think is an alien invasion. Its set in a more apocalyptic setting.
The correct answer is to mock the epic form, which was popular among the upper class
The other answer are also correct, however, they don't refer to the style and structure, but rather to the content. He wanted to show stylistically that the society read only epics that were bad and wanted to make fun of that.