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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is water become more expensive than?
(a) Wine.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Perfume.
(d) Milk.

2. What is the newest Cabinet Department in the United States Government?
(a) The Department of Crime Reduction.
(b) The Department of Astronautics.
(c) The Department of Fire Safety.
(d) The Department of Water Preservation.

3. What is Reverend Olamina's sermon about after Keith returns home?
(a) The Parable of the Sower.
(b) Job.
(c) The Ten Commandments.
(d) Noah.

4. What does Keith get for his birthday?
(a) New clothes.
(b) Keys to the gate.
(c) Money.
(d) A BB gun.

5. Which of Richard Moss' wives holds the official marriage license?
(a) None of them.
(b) Natalie.
(c) Karen.
(d) Zahra.

6. What does Keith give to Lauren on her birthday?
(a) New clothes.
(b) Money.
(c) A book.
(d) Candy.

7. What is the book about that Lauren lends to Joanne?
(a) Ammunition types.
(b) Hidden routes north.
(c) Local foods.
(d) Native plants used by California Indians.

8. What does Joanne's father believe causes the climate change?
(a) Industrial pollution.
(b) God.
(c) Too many cars.
(d) Scientists.

9. Where does Lauren plan to go when she leaves the neighborhood?
(a) To Olivar.
(b) North.
(c) East.
(d) South.

10. Who else besides Lauren does not cry over Keith's death?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Cory.
(c) Her father.
(d) Gregory.

11. How far away is Lauren's neighborhood from Los Angeles?
(a) Two miles.
(b) Twenty miles.
(c) Sixty miles.
(d) One hundred miles.

12. What does Lauren's stepmother say we can afford?
(a) Progress.
(b) Education.
(c) The stars.
(d) Food.

13. What doesn't Lauren's stepmother see when she is a girl?
(a) City lights.
(b) The moon.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Stars.

14. What is Keith allowed to do with the BB gun?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Participate in the neighborhood watch.
(c) Shoot small animals.
(d) Go to target practice.

15. Why doesn't Aura go out for target practice anymore?
(a) She sees a corpse.
(b) Her father doesn't let her.
(c) She accidentally shoots someone.
(d) She is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cory think the family should move to Olivar?

2. Where do most families in the neighborhood get their news?

3. What are Lauren and her stepmother doing outside in Lauren's dream?

4. Who does Aura Moss almost accidentally shoot?

5. What does Keith come back with the next time he runs away?

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