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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. Who is the first to tell the soldiers how the lock to the silo opens?
2. Why do Burl and Val go to the top of the hill in Chapter 5?
3. Why does Sukey come back to the farm?
4. What does Luca tell the soldiers who come to the farm?
5. Which goat gets shot first?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of pictures do Evie and the other teens see of James on social media in Chapter 5?
2. What does Evie hear the trail angels debating in Chapter 6 that scares and confuses her?
3. What does Burl tell Evie about Shel in Chapter 5?
4. What was different about the storm that has just passed in Chapter 5 compared to other very bad hurricanes?
5. What do the soldiers who come to take over the farm do to Mattie?
6. Why do Sukey and her mother come back to the farm in Chapter 6?
7. How does Mattie convince Jack and Shel to let their trapped animals free?
8. What saves the crew at the farm from the soldiers?
9. What does Evie say to Burl about the weapons in the silo?
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
Why does David decide to sabotage the yacht's navigational device, and what plot development makes this news much more serious? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What does Alycia's deal with her father - that he will not tell her mother about Alycia's dalliances with an older man if she will not tell her mother about the father's infidelity - tell the reader about the moral nature of these characters? Which other parents and children seem to make choices that are morally questionable? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Evie feel, at first, about Jack's and Shel's forgiveness of Red? What does the boys' treatment of Red seem to represent for Evie and for the rest of the teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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