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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 happens to all the soldiers' guns that were in the barn?

2. What do John's history classes mostly consist of?

3. What does Jack think Jesus is a metaphor for in the Bible?

4. Where are the soldiers living?

5. Who is the teens' spokesperson when negotiating with the soliders?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What alarming news does David get from the great house about the parents in Chapter 5?

3. What kind of pictures do Evie and the other teens see of James on social media in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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

8. Why do all the teenagers' phones start ringing at once in Chapter 7?

9. How does the farm feel to Evie when they first get there in Chapter 5?

10. What do the soldiers start doing to the angels when they can not find the other goats to kill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Terry's overture to the soldiers and the Governor reveal about the teenagers' skills, independence, and/or frame of reference? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How would you characterize Millet's description of the summer house in the first half of the novel? Why do you think she mentions it was built by robber barons in the nineteenth century, and what is the significance of this detail, as well as other details about its luxurious excess? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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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