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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ish decides to drive over the bridge, what sight prevents him from going to the other city?
(a) A fallen road sign.
(b) A massive fire.
(c) An empty car
(d) A pile of bodies.

2. On his way back to the city, Ish breaks into a fine home. What does he do while he is there?
(a) Stays for several nights.
(b) Makes himself breakfast.
(c) Listens to a voice on the radio.
(d) Empties the jewelry cabinet.

3. In the beginning, how does Ish go about finding other people?
(a) Shoots a pistol in the air.
(b) Waits at a grocery store.
(c) Puts up a flag.
(d) Honks his car horn.

4. While exploring the city, Ish finds a body hanging from a telephone pole. What does the sign say that is attached to the body?
(a) Stay away.
(b) Murderer.
(c) Beware of plague.
(d) Looter.

5. After Ish returns to the drunkard that he met in the city, the man ends up dying. What does Ish do with him ?
(a) Wraps him in a blanket.
(b) Buries him.
(c) Dumps him with the other bodies.
(d) Leaves him where he finds him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Year Nine, (The Year of the Deaths) what causes almost everyone to
 become ill?

2. When Ish arrives in a certain city in the east, ending his trip to that side of the country, what impresses him the most about the city?

3. Who does Ish meet when he is loading up his station wagon for his cross-country trip?

4. After Ish and Em come together, something happens that makes Ish panic, but Em turns it into a game. What happens?

5. How do Ish and Em decide to mark the years?

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