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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 does Raven tell Jamie about Howie's crew?

2. What does Howie take from Jamie and Andrew?

3. What does Andrew love for entertainment?

4. What route does Andrew want to take that Jamie does not want to take?

5. What information is in Jamie's mother's notebook?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamie feel about having Andrew in the house after one week?

2. What does Howard tell Jamie and Andrew when he shows up at the cabin?

3. What does Jamie organize for later in the season in Part II?

4. Why does Jamie say he comes after Andrew?

5. What does Andrew turn over and over in his mind in Part I?

6. Why is Jamie a good person for Andrew to have randomly come across in Part I?

7. How does Andrew get injured?

8. What does Jamie have as supplies that is rare?

9. What are Andrew and Jamie lucky to come across on the road on the way south?

10. Why did Jamie and his mother come to the cabin in the first place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Brown establish and maintain suspense throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Brown imply that Andrew is more wary of people, at least at first, than Jamie is? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Brown treat the topic of trust in the context of a post-apocalyptic world in the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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