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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. Who leaves to go save the power plant?
(a) Jason and Harvey.
(b) Most of the fighting force from Jellison ranch.
(c) Jason, Tim, Johnny, Hugo and several others.
(d) No one.

2. What is Rick Delanty doing?
(a) Going through a flooded home in search of anything that might be useful.
(b) Hooking up a water-powered generator.
(c) Looking for Senator Jellison.
(d) Making bows and arrows.

3. What are Tim and Eileen sitting out while they eat?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A forest fire.
(d) An earthquake.

4. What has Pete Bonar been doing?
(a) Building a telecommunications system.
(b) Digging an irrigation system.
(c) Trying to get Jellison assassinated.
(d) Hoarding chicken feed and seed corn.

5. What do the people at Jellison decide?
(a) To save the power plant.
(b) They do not know what to do.
(c) To send 10 men for the battle.
(d) To forget the power plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Harry's truck?

2. What does Dan lose in the encounter?

3. What does Dan learn from the encounter?

4. Who decides what Bonar can take with him?

5. Why does Harvey think the salvage mission needs to go now?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it seem the general philosophy of life is now for most people?

2. What does Tim suggest about the power plant and what is the ultimate decision?

3. What is the difficult part about guard duty at the Jellison stronghold?

4. What does Jackie say is ironic about the situation of the blacks since the comet strike?

5. What are Maureen's thoughts about the prisoners from the Brotherhood and do you agree with her?

6. What is one of the purposes of the meeting to which Harvey has been summoned?

7. How does Harvey help Maureen resolve her inner conflict?

8. Discuss Maureen's conversation with the Reverend Varley and her response to it.

9. What convinces Jellison to admit Harvey and his group to the ranch and what is the implication?

10. What does Harvey do and how do his tactics work on delaying the Brotherhood?

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