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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While exploring the city, Ish finds a body hanging from a telephone pole. What does the sign say that is attached to the body?
(a) Beware of plague.
(b) Stay away.
(c) Murderer.
(d) Looter.

2. How does Ish find Em?
(a) Following a handwritten sign on a post.
(b) Following a light.
(c) Following her through the streets.
(d) Following a map.

3. What does Ish become obsessed with doing while the city is being overrun by a certain kind of animal?
(a) Killing as many of the animals as possible.
(b) Building defenses against the animals.
(c) Calculating how many of this type of animal are in the city.
(d) Domesticating the animals.

4. On his way back to the city, Ish breaks into a fine home. What does he do while he is there?
(a) Makes himself breakfast.
(b) Stays for several nights.
(c) Empties the jewelry cabinet.
(d) Listens to a voice on the radio.

5. What does Em decide to call the First Year?
(a) Year of the drought.
(b) Year of plenty.
(c) Year of the ox.
(d) Year of the baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. On his way back to town after his illness, what does Ish do when he reaches Johnson's?

2. During Ish's trip to the east, he meets a small family in Arkansas. What are they doing?

3. In Year Five, the people create a "national pastime" out of avoiding 
what type of animal?

4. When Ish arrives in a certain city in the east, ending his trip to that side of the country, what impresses him the most about the city?

5. What animal does Ish see running in the highway after the virus strikes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Ish a good leader for the Tribe? Why or why not?

2. In Chapter 4, the author says this of Milt and Ann that they would "pay the penalty which in the history of the world, he knew, had always been inflicted upon organisms which specialized too highly." What do you think the author means by this statement? How has the author shown the same principle already in the text?

3. What do Ish and Em have to refill in order to continue on their journey? How do they do this?

4. What event at the end of Chapter 5 both frightens and saddens Ish?

5. Why do Ish's feelings about the execution seem to be very different than the feelings of the others?

6. Why does Em start crying when she tells Ish about her pregnancy?

7. How does the Tribe see Ish?

8. Why does Ish worry so much about Evie's state?

9. Who gave Isherwood his name, and why?

10. What is one good reason why the Tribe should merge with the other tribe?

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