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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ann begin recording the events of her day?
(a) Her mother asks her to do so just before her mother dies.
(b) Her father appoints her as the historian.
(c) Her teacher at school suggests it is a good thing to do.
(d) She cannot remember the details otherwise.

3. What had the team just completed before the war?
(a) A suit made of kevlar.
(b) A suit of the polymer.
(c) A suit of the special metal.
(d) A suit made of a silk like material that the amoeba creates.

4. Who returns to the valley?
(a) The Kleins.
(b) David.
(c) No one.
(d) Faro.

5. What does Ann play for Mr. Loomis?
(a) Her trumpet.
(b) Her clarinet.
(c) The piano.
(d) The guitar.

6. What does Ann fear about Loomis?
(a) He will want to get married.
(b) He will start trying to boss her around.
(c) He will leave.
(d) He might be getting delirious again.

7. What does Ann decide she will do after cooking breakfast?
(a) Write in her journal.
(b) Practice the piano.
(c) Go fishing.
(d) Go to the store.

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

9. How does Ann know what she states in the opening sentence?
(a) They heard the news on the radio.
(b) The dog herds the cows home who kick at Ann.
(c) She sees smoke.
(d) Someone has been shooting a rifle.

10. Where has Ann been on the morning of the opening of the book?
(a) In the hayloft.
(b) Church.
(c) School.
(d) The doctor's office.

11. About how far is Claypole Ridge?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 15 miles.
(c) 32 miles.
(d) Over 50 miles away.

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

13. Where is Loomis from?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Ithaca.
(c) Boston.
(d) North Platte.

14. What does the man set up in the front yard?
(a) A hand-cranked generator.
(b) A water purification filter.
(c) A tent.
(d) A radio transmitter.

15. Where is the man?
(a) In his tent unconscious.
(b) Gathering eggs.
(c) Swimming in the pond.
(d) Gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the man afraid?

2. What is Ann's first impulse when the man yells for anyone?

3. About whom does Ann ask Loomis?

4. How does Ann feel about the man being there as she gets ready to sleep that night?

5. Why does Ann have Loomis move into the house?

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