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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, 'It Won't Work, Rod' and Chapter 13, Unkillable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Rod's family home?
(a) A neighborhood in New York.
(b) A neighborhood in the Outlands.
(c) A suburb on the Grand Canyon.
(d) A suburb on Luna.

2. Why does Rod insist, at the end of Chapter 13, that the students should stay put rather than move their settlement?
(a) In honor of Grant, they should refuse to be driven away by dirty little beasts.
(b) Rod is concerned that women and babies would not survive a move.
(c) In honor of Grant, they should domesticate the dopey joes.
(d) Rod realizes that the cave settlement would be more dangerous to live in than their current settlement.

3. What object signifies a vote for Grant?
(a) A piece of baked clay.
(b) A green leaf.
(c) A pebble.
(d) A twig.

4. At the end of Chapter 10, what two students plan to marry according to Grant?
(a) Bill and Sue.
(b) Bill and Carmen.
(c) Bob and Carmen.
(d) Bob and Sue.

5. How much meat does Jack want to take, when the two are ready to part ways?
(a) The belly and a haunch.
(b) A haunch and part of the brain.
(c) A haunch and a chunk of liver.
(d) The brain and the liver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school does Jack, the student Rod encounters in Chapter 4 while hunting, attend?

2. How does Rod travel from school to home?

3. In Chapter 13, what catastrophic event is triggered by the strange new behavior of the dopey joes?

4. When Rod and Roy reach the downstream end of the river on their expedition, what do they find?

5. What unit of currency does Rod spend while watching the travelers at Emigrants' Gap?

(see the answer key)

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