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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of traps do Jack and Shel use for the animals?
(a) Final cause.
(b) Havaharts.
(c) Bristly timber.
(d) Bear traps.

2. What does Jack think Jesus is a metaphor for in the Bible?
(a) Love.
(b) Treachery.
(c) Science.
(d) Life.

3. What does Eve think of the governor's state of mind in Chapter 8, during their negotiations?
(a) She thinks he is very sharp and thinking clearly.
(b) She thinks he is not fully conscious.
(c) She thinks he might be high.
(d) She thinks he is having some kind of psychotic break.

4. Which goat gets shot first?
(a) Henry.
(b) Dilly.
(c) Ben.
(d) Sally.

5. What happens to the storms by the time they make it inland?
(a) They are tamer.
(b) They bring more water overall.
(c) They bring more lightning overall.
(d) They are more ferocious.

6. Why does Burl take some of the teenagers back to the great house?
(a) So the teenagers can give the parents blood transfusions.
(b) So the teenagers can get some money from the parents.
(c) So the teenagers can help clean up the great house.
(d) So the teenagers can get some more food.

7. When does Jack's owl begin flying again?
(a) After it loses its feathers.
(b) After the band is taken off its leg.
(c) After he and Shel take off its bandage.
(d) After the owl finds another owl.

8. What kind of animal on the farm is Jack happy to see?
(a) Goats.
(b) Horses.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Frogs.

9. What are the soldiers most excited about finding in the silo?
(a) Grenades.
(b) Cars.
(c) Chairs.
(d) Guns.

10. What do the soldiers call their leader?
(a) The head.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The boss.
(d) The governor.

11. What does Luca say the teenagers need to do for the parents?
(a) Get jobs so they can earn money.
(b) Find other people to take care of them so their parents do not need to any longer.
(c) Give them blood transfusions.
(d) Call relatives to tell them the parents might be dying.

12. Why do all the teenagers' phones start ringing at the same time?
(a) The police are calling.
(b) Their parents are checking in with them, having been alerted they are hostages.
(c) The teenagers' grandparents are checking in on them.
(d) The owner is calling all the teenagers at once.

13. Why do the parents tell the teenagers not to come back to the house?
(a) The house has collapsed.
(b) There is not enough food.
(c) The teenagers could get sick too.
(d) The teenagers will not be able to find the house again.

14. What does Jack think God is a metaphor for in Chapter 7?
(a) Nature.
(b) Friends.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

15. Who takes Evie at gunpoint into the woods in Chapter 7?
(a) Burl.
(b) Red.
(c) Mattie.
(d) The governor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do John's history classes mostly consist of?

2. Where does Burl decide to take the teenagers when they cannot find a passable road to Juicy's house?

3. Who taught poetry on the farm?

4. What does Evie tell Jack and Shel to do when the men with guns come?

5. What does the governor threaten to do to Mattie by sundown in Chapter 7 if the rest of the farm crew does not give him more food?

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