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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 & 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ellie get a gun once she's in the back of the truck?
(a) There's an extra in the back of the truck.
(b) Lee hands her one.
(c) Fi hands it to her.
(d) She unstraps it from her back.

2. What does Ellie say is different about the house they decide to raid in an effort to find food?
(a) It's two stories.
(b) Its windows are intact.
(c) It's blue.
(d) Nothing.

3. Who is the first to figure out the group has arrived at the airfield?
(a) Lee.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Homer.
(d) Fi.

4. What does Ellie say she felt about storms prior to the war?
(a) That they were the scariest thing she'd experienced.
(b) That they made more work.
(c) That they were exciting.
(d) That there was nothing really scary about them.

5. What was the activity Homer sometimes did with a rifle when he was young?
(a) He'd shoot wallabies.
(b) He'd shoot cans filled with petrol.
(c) He'd shoot toadstools.
(d) He'd shoot birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie use to pry open the back door of her Grandma's house?

2. Why does Ellie say summer storms are the wildest?

3. What does Lee say the soldiers are doing?

4. What does Homer give Ellie as they get into the huge garbage truck after the explosion?

5. What does Ellie say she remembers her hockey coach saying about the timid player?

(see the answer key)

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