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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the silo besides food?

2. Who does Eve credit with getting the teenagers to safety?

3. Which goat gets shot first?

4. Why does Burl take some of the teenagers back to the great house?

5. Why do all the teenagers' phones start ringing at the same time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Burl tell Evie about Shel in Chapter 5?

7. What is one reason Evie and the teenagers like the trail angels?

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

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

10. What is the journey from the great house to the farm like in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Millet treat the theme of sex from a coming-of-age point of view throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How much do Evie and the rest of the teenagers really seem to understand about the scope of the storm and its aftermath? When in the novel does Evie seem to begin to grasp the magnitude of the death toll and the ensuing crisis resulting from the storm? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Millet chooses to leave the question of where the parents go in the very end of the novel - and why they leave - very ambiguous? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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