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

2. What do the teenagers find in the barn the day after the owner arrives at the farm?
(a) Lots of books.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Skulls and other human remains.
(d) Hay and donkeys.

3. Who stitches up Darla's wounds?
(a) John.
(b) Eve.
(c) Mattie.
(d) Burl.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the angels do during their ceremony for Sukey's mother's burial?

3. Who does Low claim he is related to?

4. Why does the owner decide to do away with the soldiers?

5. Who taught biology on the farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Burl tell Evie not to worry about food supplies at the farm?

2. What is extraordinary about Red in the end of Chapter 8?

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

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

5. Why do Sukey and her mother come back to the farm in Chapter 6?

6. What was different about the storm that has just passed in Chapter 5 compared to other very bad hurricanes?

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

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

9. What does Evie say to Burl about the weapons in the silo?

10. What shocks the teenagers about Sukey's mother when she appears at the farm to collect Sukey?

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