2. When Ish decides to take a cross-country trip, what is the reason he decides to go?
(a) To find a safer place to live.
(b) To find other survivors.
(c) To find a friend he hopes survived.
(d) To find his parents.

3. Where does Ish drive when he finds out Em is pregnant?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To an old pharmacy.
(c) To the library.
(d) Back to Em's old house.

4. In Year Sixteen, what do Mary and Ralph decide to do?
(a) Get married.
(b) Run away from home.
(c) Start a new village.
(d) Go look for other people.

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) Leaves him where he finds him.
(d) Dumps him with the other bodies.

6. While scavenging for food in his hometown, what item of food does Ish find to be inedible because of mice and weevils?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Salt.
(c) Flour.
(d) Fruit.

7. What does Ish become obsessed with doing while the city is being overrun by a certain kind of animal?
(a) Killing as many of the animals as possible.
(b) Domesticating the animals.
(c) Building defenses against the animals.
(d) Calculating how many of this type of animal are in the city.

8. What is the name of the city where Ish ends his trip to the east?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Pittsburgh.

9. After Ish and Em come together, something happens that makes Ish panic, but Em turns it into a game. What happens?
(a) Em trips and hurts herself.
(b) Princess disappears.
(c) The car won't start.
(d) Ish loses his watch.

10. On his way back to town after his illness, what does Ish do when he reaches Johnson's?
(a) Steals from the register.
(b) Pumps gas and leaves payment.
(c) Looks in the window and leaves.
(d) Talks to the attendant.

11. How do Ish and Em decide to mark the years?
(a) By marking the object Ish carries with him.
(b) By painting the pole of a streetsign outside their house.
(c) By keeping a diary.
(d) By chiseling into a large rock.

12. When pondering about mankind, Ish comes up with a definition for them. What definition does he use?
(a) The world-killing animal.
(b) The diseased animal.
(c) The noise-producing animal.
(d) The ravenous animal.

13. How does Em demonstrate to Ish that children are necessary?
(a) She shows him old pictures of her family.
(b) She lights a match and blows it out.
(c) She shows him how hard it is to work the garden alone.
(d) She digs the roots out of a rose bush.

14. Who does Ish meet when he is loading up his station wagon for his cross-country trip?
(a) A dog.
(b) A woman who asks to accompany him.
(c) An angry crowd.
(d) A crazy man.

15. What do the older members of the community notice that  they think "pushes back the darkness" a little?
(a) The number of years everyone has survived.
(b) The progress in building the village.
(c) The sudden arrival of visitors.
(d) The birth of children.