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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Evie decide to discount the possible presence of the tick in Chapter 5?
(a) She is just happy to be alive.
(b) Ticks can no longer make people sick.
(c) There is medicine for the illnesses ticks bear in the silo.
(d) She likes ticks.

2. What does Evie overhear the trail angels discussing?
(a) Who will adopt the baby.
(b) How to best bury Sukey's mother.
(c) Who has the most money.
(d) How they will steal all the food in the silo.

3. 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?
(a) Cut his throat.
(b) Drown him.
(c) Shoot him in the gut.
(d) Hang him.

4. What does the owner of the farm look like?
(a) She is older and small, dressed all in black.
(b) She is young and tall.
(c) She is middle-aged and very average looking.
(d) She is very old and wizened, and she walks with a cane.

5. What does Luca tell the soldiers who come to the farm?
(a) Luca will call the owner, and then they will be sorry.
(b) They can have sandwiches and then go.
(c) Luca will call the police right then and there.
(d) Luca will shoot them if they stay.

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

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

8. Where do the teenagers and others perform the watch duties on the farm?
(a) The crow's nest.
(b) The trees around the farm.
(c) The cottage.
(d) The attic.

9. Which of the trail angels has some medical training?
(a) Frank.
(b) Mattie.
(c) Luca.
(d) Darla.

10. Who does Low claim he is related to?
(a) The Buddha.
(b) Terry.
(c) Ghengis Khan.
(d) The Pope.

11. What is in the silo besides food?
(a) A gun cabinet with many guns.
(b) Coffins.
(c) Cars.
(d) Animals.

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

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

14. Who is the first to tell the soldiers how the lock to the silo opens?
(a) Darla.
(b) Eve.
(c) Juicy.
(d) Burl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Evie at gunpoint into the woods in Chapter 7?

2. What is Juicy's real name?

3. Why do Burl and Val go to the top of the hill in Chapter 5?

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

5. What does the owner order the SWAT team to do in Chapter 8?

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