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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth tell Clay and Amanda about their plans for the following day?
(a) They should try to get to the airport.
(b) They should not go because it is not safe out in the world.
(c) They should go to another state and try to make a new life.
(d) They should go as soon as possible.

2. What does Ruth make in Chapter 22 for the adults?
(a) Cake.
(b) Cocktails.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

3. In Chapter 28, what can G.H. not wait to see?
(a) The markets.
(b) The theater.
(c) His bank account balance.
(d) His own reflection.

4. What does Ruth tell Amanda she cannot do for her?
(a) Shelter her.
(b) Comfort her.
(c) Baby her.
(d) Love her.

5. What does G.H. theorize about the creatures everyone saw in the pool?
(a) They were from a zoo whose grid failed and they escaped.
(b) They were there as part of a climate event.
(c) They were an illusion.
(d) They were from a nearby rescue station.

6. What does G.H. say about the quiet in Chapter 30?
(a) It is relentless.
(b) It is bad.
(c) It is noisy.
(d) It is scary.

7. In Chapter 23, what does Amanda ask if the noise could have been?
(a) A river.
(b) An animal.
(c) A plane.
(d) An avalanche.

8. What does Clay think was strange about his trip in the car earlier in Chapter 26?
(a) He did not see a single other car.
(b) He saw a lot of crows gathered in the road.
(c) He saw a lot of standing water by the lake.
(d) He saw herds of deer passing.

9. What kind of woman does Amanda believe herself to be in Chapter 22?
(a) A woman of the world.
(b) A sly woman.
(c) A Renaissance woman.
(d) A kind woman.

10. What music does Ruth tell the others she loves in Chapter 24?
(a) Swan Lake.
(b) Green Day.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Billie Eilish.

11. What does G.H. consider high praise in Chapter 18?
(a) Telling Clay and Amanda they seem well-educated.
(b) Telling Amanda she is attractive.
(c) Telling Amanda her children are polite.
(d) Telling Amanda she seems rich.

12. What happens again in Chapter 31 that terrifies everyone?
(a) A terrible loud sound happens again.
(b) Archie throws up again.
(c) A knock comes on the door.
(d) Rose starts throwing up.

13. In Chapter 33, what happens to Amanda in the morning?
(a) Her hair falls out.
(b) She vomits.
(c) Her teeth fall out.
(d) She has a bad headache.

14. In Chapter 28, what do the adults eat for dinner?
(a) Casserole.
(b) Sausage pasta.
(c) Roast turkey.
(d) Hamburgers.

15. What can Amanda not help herself but blame the Washingtons for in Chapter 28?
(a) Bringing the world into their vacation house - and all its current misery.
(b) The fact that her car broke down.
(c) The terrible things that the herd of deer seemed to predict.
(d) The soiled state of the pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Amanda secretly prefer working for?

2. What medicine does Archie take in Chapter 27?

3. What does Clay suggest that is subversive in Chapter 29, which Amanda hesitates before agreeing to?

4. What does Ruth tell Amanda and Clay they should do on the last night of their vacation?

5. What does the narrator reveals is the fate of the man who runs the laundromat Amada uses?

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