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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. 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) Beware of plague.
(c) Looter.
(d) Murderer.

2. What vegetable does Ish grow in his garden in Year Two of the Quick Years?
(a) Zucchini.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Rhubarb.
(d) Lettuce.

3. When Ish drives to a certain building after finding out Em is pregnant, 
how does he manage to get inside?
(a) He breaks in through a window.
(b) He finds a door that was left ajar.
(c) He finds an open window.
(d) He chops the door off its hinges.

4. While living alone, what book does Ish begin reading that makes him uneasy?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Koran.
(d) Arabian Nights.

5. Out of all the people Ish finds at first, which of these is the most friendly?
(a) The hermit.
(b) The little girl.
(c) The former lawyer.
(d) The couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal do the children see for the first time in Year Nineteen?

2. In the Quick Years, which new discovery or hobby causes the children to be so delighted 
they name Year Ten after it?

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

4. While exploring the city, Ish meets a drunkard. What is the man's name?

5. On his way back to town after his illness, what does Ish do when he reaches Johnson's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What trick do the children play every year at New Years?

2. Would Ish like any man that the boys brought back? Why or why not?

3. What purpose do funeral rites serve, according to the author?

4. Why do Ish's feelings about the execution seem to be very different than the feelings of the others?

5. After the over-population of a certain animal, Ish notices that the larger ones of the species start killing one another off. He decides that the animals are not doing this out of hunger. What does he believe is the real reason?

6. How is it significant that Ish has not passed on the tradition of carving the year into the rock? What effect may this have later?

7. Why hasn't Ish ever noticed how beautiful Evie is?

8. Who gave Isherwood his name, and why?

9. What was different about the bodies that Ish saw in the dry, Arizona town?

10. Has following Ish thorough the different stages of his life given you a better understanding of why elderly people like to just sit and talk? Why?

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