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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 kind of books does Kitty Offenhaus tell Alice to remove from the library?

2. What is the Saratoga?

3. What kind of music does Florence like to listen to?

4. What does Randy's friend, Dan, say about him drinking for breakfast?

5. What does Randy tell Helen and the children when they join him outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Bragg brothers and what are they both doing at the beginning of the book?

2. What does "the Day" designate and how important is it to the people of Ft. Repose?

3. What does Florence tell Alice about Randy?

4. What does James Cobb do when ordered to go after a bogy?

5. Why is Alice late meeting Florence and what ultimately happened?

6. What does the announcement from the Acting Chief Executive tell the people of Ft. Repose?

7. What kind of encounter does Randy have with Florence and Alice after he is alone the evening of his errands to town?

8. What does Randy think of Florence at the beginning of the book?

9. What does Randy drink in the morning and what does his friend, Dan, say about it?

10. What does Mark do after his family leaves for Orlando before he reports to work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 1 it may seem that Randy is a developing alcoholic but he says as long as he just enjoys but doesn't crave, he's okay.

1. Do you think people can't be alcoholics if they don't think they are? Why or why not?

2. What do you think are the symptoms of alcoholism?

3. Do you think if someone has a drink in the morning that makes him/her an alcoholic? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Civilization retreats a hundred years in Fort Repose on The Day.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What do you think would happen in the United States in the present if all electrical power was permanently lost?

3. Do you think the loss of government and electrical power would cause some people to act better and some to behave worse than normal? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Randy asks who won but Paul's answer includes the remark that there isn't much left to win, that it didn't really matter.

1. Do you think countries would ever have an all out nuclear war knowing that it would destroy civilization? Why or why not?

2. How do you think the U.S. was able to determine it had won the war? Do you think it mattered? Why or why not?

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