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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 meets a drunkard. What is the man's name?
(a) Asher.
(b) Robert.
(c) Ben.
(d) Barlow.

2. In Year Five, the people create a "national pastime" out of avoiding 
what type of animal?
(a) Hyenas.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Bulls.
(d) Lions.

3. At one point, Ish considers suicide, but there is one particular reason he decides not to kill himself. What gives Ish the will to live?
(a) The fear of death.
(b) The books he reads.
(c) Curiosity about his parents.
(d) Being an observer.

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

5. How does Ish find Em?
(a) Following a map.
(b) Following her through the streets.
(c) Following a handwritten sign on a post.
(d) Following a light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Joey do better than any of the other children?

2. What does Em decide to call the First Year?

3. In the beginning, how does Ish go about finding other people?

4. When Ish decides to take a cross-country trip, what is the reason he decides to go?

5. What vegetable does Ish grow in his garden in Year Two of the Quick Years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tradition does Em begin when they carve the year into the rock?

2. What difference does Em make in Ish's life? What would have happened to Ish if Em had not been there?

3. What is the author trying to illustrate when he shows how the young men treat Ish if he doesn't answer questions?

4. Is it significant that the author shows all the dependent animals dying first? If so, how is it significant?

5. What did Ezra do to test Charlie about his vest?

6. Why does Ish decide that most of the items on his original list of survival characteristics are useless?

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

8. How is Ish different at the end of the book than he was at the start?

9. How does Ish feel after he finally discovers what has happened to everyone?

10. 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?

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