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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After completing his role as a soldier, what was Albert Gaine's occupation?
(a) He was a musician.
(b) He was a plastic surgeon.
(c) He was a college professor.
(d) He was an accountant.

2. How was Sarat's father killed?
(a) When a Bird crashed into their house.
(b) In a bombing of a Federal buildiing.
(c) When his boat sank.
(d) In a car wreck.

3. Where is Joe from?
(a) The Bouazizi Union.
(b) Russia.
(c) The Free Southern States.
(d) Michigan.

4. What item did Simon steal from an abandoned studio?
(a) A book of sheet music.
(b) A new aluminum easel.
(c) A set of old paintbrushes.
(d) An old black guitar case.

5. How does Albert Gaines react when Sarat says she wants to kill the people who perpetrated the massacre?
(a) He questions her.
(b) He smiles at her.
(c) He is angry at her.
(d) He makes fun of her.

6. What was it considered a crime to use?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Water.
(c) Matches.
(d) Fossil fuels.

7. What was Gerry Tusk's occupation before he moved to the Bouazizi Empire?
(a) He was an ornthologist.
(b) He was an orator.
(c) He was an archeologist.
(d) He was a virologist.

8. What kind of home does Sarat live in?
(a) Sarat lives in a corrugated steel container salvaged from the shipyard.
(b) Sarat lives on a rusty old houseboat.
(c) Sarat lives in a dilapidated, two-story wooden farmhouse.
(d) Sarat lives in a cave along the riverbank.

9. What happened after the war that caused ten times more people to die?
(a) A Tsunami on the West Coast.
(b) The Reunification Plague.
(c) A wildfire across North America.
(d) The Famine-Producing Drought.

10. When the narrator talks about "Birds," to what is he referring?
(a) Large carrion raptors that came to the battlefields after a battle.
(b) Remote-controlled weapons of war that flew overhead, spying on and killing the enemy.
(c) Northern Red Cross dirigibles.
(d) Secret hand signals that indicated participation in the Southern resistance.

11. What aspect of the landscape does the eyewitness from the Kilgore, Texas regiment comment on?
(a) Shifting desert sands.
(b) Lush, green jungles.
(c) Muddy river banks.
(d) Sharp, brown grass.

12. Where did the Chestnut family hide their valuables?
(a) Under a loose floorboard of their house.
(b) Beneath the rotted out stump in their backyard.
(c) In a drainpipe off the roof of their house.
(d) In an old metal can tied to a string and floating in the river.

13. Which of the following items is NOT a gift that Gaines gave to Sarat?
(a) A book.
(b) A gun.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A knife.

14. What are Yuxis?
(a) The type of jeans that Simon wore.
(b) Sarat Chestnut's favorite kind of cookie.
(c) A plant the Chestnuts ground up to feed their chickens.
(d) The unfiltered cigarettes Benjamin Chestnut smoked.

15. The night before the massacre, Gaines shares a delicacy with Sarat. What is it?
(a) Champagne.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Lobster.
(d) Caviar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Martina do at the camp to earn money?

2. When the story opens, what is Sarat doing?

3. What was the symbol of the group Simon joined?

4. How many people were estimated to be killed in the war?

5. Who is the author of the novel American War?

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