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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Meat.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Cheese.

2. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant will do?
(a) Run Tynsham into the ground.
(b) Find a lover.
(c) Leave Tynsham.
(d) Seduce the priest.

3. What does Bill eventually see in the darkness?
(a) An answering smoke signal.
(b) An answering fire.
(c) Answering headlights.
(d) An answering light.

4. What does Bill help the young woman do at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) Escape.
(b) Find food.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Kill her keeper.

5. What does Miss Durrant see as the fall of mankind?
(a) Decadence, immorality, and lack of faith.
(b) Thanklessness and selfishness.
(c) Communism.
(d) Laziness and stubbornness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bill take the young woman?

2. What do Bill and Josella see in the night that chooses for them where to go in the morning?

3. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

4. How does Bill suggest they begin to search for Josella in the Downs?

5. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

(see the answer key)

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