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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man do after using the Geiger counter?
(a) Turn around to leave.
(b) Clasps his hands and looks up and prays.
(c) Take off his mask.
(d) Kneels and kisses the ground.

2. With what information does the book open in the first sentence?
(a) Someone is coming.
(b) The cows are acting strangely.
(c) Ann and her family are alone in the valley.
(d) There was a nuclear holocaust.

3. Since it is June, what is urgent that Ann do?
(a) Can some of her garden asap.
(b) Let the rooster have access to the chickens.
(c) Get the cow pregnant again.
(d) Get the garden going.

4. What does Loomis think the Creek water could do?
(a) Pollute the pond.
(b) Generate electricity.
(c) Eventually become harmless.
(d) Keep trespassers away.

5. What would Ann like to have in a church if she ever got married?
(a) Apple blossoms.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Water lilies.
(d) Wild flowers.

6. How does Ann spend much of the next day?
(a) Plowing fields with the tractor.
(b) Gathering the chickens.
(c) Planting greens.
(d) Bringing the cows to the front pasture.

7. For what does Ann really long?
(a) Fresh salad and greens.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

8. What bothers Ann about the man and her chickens?
(a) He eats some of her eggs.
(b) He can hear them.
(c) He captures them and puts them in his cart.
(d) He kills one of them.

9. What is Loomis doing when Ann returns home?
(a) Checking the radiation levels of the Creek.
(b) Cutting firewood.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Writing out instructions for a windmill.

10. What does Loomis show Ann in one of her father's books?
(a) How to build a greenhouse.
(b) How to build a wind turbine.
(c) How to build a water wheel.
(d) How to get gas out of the pumps manually.

11. About what does Ann tell Loomis?
(a) Her secret diary.
(b) Her radio that is still working.
(c) Her cellar with lots of canned goods.
(d) Her family.

12. What is Ann's first impulse when the man yells for anyone?
(a) To get up to the cave.
(b) To answer him.
(c) To send Faro down to him.
(d) To shoot him.

13. What seems to puzzle the man after he goes inside Ann's home?
(a) There is fresh food in the cabinets.
(b) There are green plants in the sunroom.
(c) Faro isn't barking at the man.
(d) No one is there.

14. Where does her parents say they are going first in their explorations?
(a) To the Mennonites.
(b) To the Quaker settlement.
(c) To the Amish.
(d) To the military base.

15. What does Ann decide to plant?
(a) Wheat and beans.
(b) Corn and wheat.
(c) Corn and beans.
(d) Cabbage and corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ann fear about Loomis?

2. What is the man wearing who arrives in Ann's sight?

3. Why doesn't Ann use the tractor?

4. How does Loomis get there from where he started?

5. Who was supposed to stay with Ann when her parents went exploring?

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