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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of a literary narrative, what is the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Rising action.
(d) Climax.

2. Oscar Wydell is trying to locate the location of what in Chapter 25?
(a) Animal storage.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Food storage.
(d) War charts.

3. What refers to a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Totalitarianism.
(d) Unitarianism.

4. What item given to Luke by Eli does he use for comfort throughout the novel?
(a) The hat.
(b) The quilt.
(c) The coat.
(d) The gun.

5. In Chapter 22, Luke makes his way to the building where the food is and just finds what on the counter?
(a) Soup.
(b) Bread.
(c) Fish.
(d) Fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Luke never done before in Chapter 30?

2. How many novels comprise the Shadow Children series?

3. In Chapter 25, Luke crawls to hide behind what as someone enters the secret room?

4. When Luke replays the conversation between Aldous and Oscar in Chapter 26, Luke realizes that Aldous still has power over Oscar because Aldous knows what?

5. Luke realizes in Chapter 29 that Oscar and the boy back where represent the same things?

Short Essay Questions

1. What moral message does Luke realize in the denouement of the narrative in Chapter 33?

2. How are Oscar and the boy from Chiutza similar? How is this illustrated in Chapter 29?

3. Why does Luke struggle with his identity in Chapter 20?

4. What are the principal fears faced by Luke in Chapter 22? What propels him to overcome his fears?

5. Who cries out from the crowd to defend Luke in Chapter 32? What does she suggest?

6. How is the scene of departure in Don's truck described in Chapter 19?

7. What actions does the protagonist take in the climax of the narrative in Chapter 31?

8. What do the horse stables represent to Luke? How is this explored in Chapter 21?

9. What does Luke attempt to convince himself in Chapter 26? What lends doubt to this thought?

10. What does Luke initially do in order to try to sway the public in Chapter 29? Why?

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