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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the teens try to get into the burning barn?
(a) They are worried the baby is in there.
(b) They want to save the soldiers.
(c) Eve is worried Jack is in there.
(d) They are worried the angels or Burl could be inside.

2. What do John's history classes mostly consist of?
(a) The plot of the novel Sunnyside.
(b) The plot of the novel Sunderland.
(c) Movie plots.
(d) The biography of his ex-girlfriend.

3. Why do the teenagers and others on the farm give up their tradition of keeping watch?
(a) The owner told them not to do it.
(b) Burl told them they did not need to watch any longer.
(c) The storms cut down on their visibility and they are afraid of the lightning.
(d) They got bored.

4. What does the owner order the SWAT team to do in Chapter 8?
(a) Burn the barn with the soldiers in it and lock the doors so they can not get out.
(b) Take the soldiers to jail.
(c) Shoot all the soldiers one by one.
(d) Throw the owners in the lake with stones tied to them.

5. Who comes to the farm in Chapter 8, surprising the teens?
(a) The parents.
(b) James.
(c) Alycia.
(d) The twins, Amy and Kay.

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

7. What is the one sentence Shel says out loud in Part IV?
(a) Fire!
(b) Time to eat!
(c) You're very ignorant.
(d) Let's get out of here.

8. Which of the following is one of the owner's ground rules for the farm?
(a) No eating from the silo.
(b) No playing games.
(c) No planting a garden.
(d) No sex.

9. What does the owner's text to Eve say?
(a) Eve and the others have to leave the farm soon.
(b) There is another bad storm coming.
(c) Eve should take any books she wants to borrow.
(d) Burl and the angels are with the owner and safe.

10. What task does Evie give Jack and Shel to distract them from the grief of Sukey's mother dying?
(a) Mowing the grass.
(b) Picking tomatoes.
(c) Eating apples.
(d) Finding all the goats.

11. Who does Eve credit with getting the teenagers to safety?
(a) Henry.
(b) Burl.
(c) Effie.
(d) Juicy.

12. Why does Sukey come back to the farm?
(a) Her mother abandoned her.
(b) She missed the others.
(c) She could not find any place to help her mother deliver the baby.
(d) The parents would not let them back in the house.

13. Who do the soldiers tie to a tree in torture?
(a) Darla.
(b) Mattie.
(c) John.
(d) Luca.

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

15. Who is the teens' spokesperson when negotiating with the soliders?
(a) Dee.
(b) Terry.
(c) Evie.
(d) Low.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sukey have to drive her mother away from the refuge?

2. Who does Low claim he is related to?

3. When does Eve start to feel hope in Chapter 8?

4. What do the soldiers start doing to the angels when they can not find the rest of the goats?

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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