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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack say about the Bible in Chapter 7?

2. Who taught biology on the farm?

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

4. Who breaks a window in the cottage in Chapter 7?

5. Why does Sukey come back to the farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Evie surprised to hear Shel speak in Chapter 7 and what does he say?

2. What do the soldiers who come to take over the farm do to Mattie?

3. What does Jack tell Darla he has figured out about the Bible in Chapter 7?

4. Who does Evie credit with saving them from the great house and leading them to the farm, and why?

5. What does Evie hear the trail angels debating in Chapter 6 that scares and confuses her?

6. What saves the crew at the farm from the soldiers?

7. What happens to Red when he takes Evie at gunpoint out in the woods?

8. On what conditions does the owner of the farm say the teenagers and Burl are allowed to stay there?

9. Why does Evie grow frantic when the soldiers start shooting sheep?

10. How does Sukey seem to react to having to care for her infant half-sister?

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