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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What convinces Jellison to let them stay?
(a) Marie's degree in medicine.
(b) Harvey's degree in medicine.
(c) Marie's training as a botanist.
(d) Mark's military training.

2. What does Tim hear?
(a) A vulture screaming.
(b) A gunshot.
(c) The sound of a kitchen timer.
(d) A scream.

3. Why does Dan think they should save the power plant?
(a) Because of the radioactive materials that would be dangerous in the wrong hands.
(b) Because civilization depends on electricity.
(c) Because someday they may be able to use the power plant again.
(d) He does not think it is a priority.

4. What does Dan learn from the encounter?
(a) That the West Coast is basically gone.
(b) That some people have already taken to cannibalism.
(c) That it is safest to go west.
(d) That there is a stronghold three miles northeast that might offer him shelter.

5. How is Jellison?
(a) Feeling much better.
(b) He has the flu.
(c) Obviously ill.
(d) Dead during the "war."

6. What does Harvey's group do?
(a) Lay mines to blow up the boats.
(b) Fell trees, produce oil slicks and other obstacles.
(c) Sacrifice their lives for the greater good.
(d) Use the M-60 machine guns they have found to ambush the brotherhood.

7. Under whom has the power plant been operating?
(a) Havey's old boss.
(b) No one.
(c) The mayor of Los Angeles.
(d) Barry Price.

8. Where are Harvey and Mark at the opening of this chapter?
(a) Working on security of the ranch lands.
(b) Rigging a windmill for power.
(c) Out searching for Gordie and the Boy Scouts.
(d) Driving around the area to check on possible supplies.

9. Where does Harvey find his son?
(a) With other dead boys and Gordie who is barely alive.
(b) At camp full of boy and girl scouts and Gordie.
(c) He never finds his son.
(d) With some dead girl scouts.

10. What are Harvey and Mark doing?
(a) Weeding corn rows.
(b) Splitting rocks.
(c) Planting vegetables.
(d) Building irrigation drains.

11. What does Hugo Beck say Armitage is preaching?
(a) The comet is a way of rearranging the power structure of society.
(b) The comet is punishment from God.
(c) That all works of man should be destroyed.
(d) The comet is Satan showing his power.

12. What does Eileen do to give them a better driving experience?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Goes through pastures rather than on the rough cement road.
(c) Finds some railroad tracks and drives on them.
(d) Deflates the tires slightly.

13. What does Tim want?
(a) More people to come fight for the power plant.
(b) Shelter.
(c) Eileen to definitely marry him.
(d) A volunteer army.

14. Who summons Harvey to a meeting?
(a) Alice Cox.
(b) Marie.
(c) Eileen.
(d) Maureen.

15. What is Harvey supposed to do?
(a) Create obstacles to delay the brotherhood.
(b) Operate a catapult.
(c) Get back to the ranch and request more manpower.
(d) Help Dan make gas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dan lose in the encounter?

2. What does Tim do?

3. Who attends the court proceedings?

4. Who sacrifices his life to save the power plant?

5. What kind of information does the mail carrier bring Senator Jellison?

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