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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. How is Loretta?
(a) She is fine.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She is slightly injured.
(d) She is wounded.

2. What passes Tim and Eileen and goes off the bridge?
(a) A police cruiser.
(b) A man on a bicycle.
(c) Another car.
(d) A motorcycle.

3. Besides the residents, who else is at the ranch?
(a) Lots of cattle.
(b) No one.
(c) Guests who fled the more populated areas.
(d) A couple hikers lost before the comet.

4. What do Tim and Eileen find off the main road?
(a) Two horses grazing.
(b) A dead woman.
(c) A way to climb upwards.
(d) A gravel road.

5. What does Dr. Leonilla Alexandrovna Malik want to be doing?
(a) Defecting to the U.S.A.
(b) Being a kosmonaut for which she is trained.
(c) Marrying her fiance who is in space at the moment.
(d) Treat sick children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are archaeologists Alexander Willis and MacDonald sitting?

2. What are Charles Sharps and Dan Forrester doing?

3. Who is in a deserted spot in the Santa Monica Mountains?

4. Who is Delores?

5. Who tries to take Harry to town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Harry doing when the comet strikes and what is his response?

2. How does Harry happen take up residence at a chicken ranch and do you think he has the right to do so?

3. What does it say about Tim and Eileen that they agree to take four of the children and about Larry who refuses to harm Tim and Eileen?

4. What happens to Norm Lilly that demonstrates the continued deterioration of law and order?

5. Do you think Harry is a little crazy for continuing his pursuit to deliver the mail?

6. What policy does Jellison and his cohorts decide upon and do you agree with them?

7. Define the literary term "comic relief" and give an example of it from this section.

8. What advice does Tim give the ranger?

9. What demonstrates how those who survive are the ones who concentrate on their own survival?

10. What is one repercussion of the "gloom and doom" message preached by Henry Armitage and others?

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