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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of books is Lauren reading?
(a) Books about native plants.
(b) Books about survival.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Books about guns.

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

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

4. Who are the only people who still keep dogs?
(a) Water peddlers.
(b) Drug dealers.
(c) Rich people.
(d) Homeless people.

5. Whose books is Lauren reading?
(a) Curtis Talcott's.
(b) Keith's.
(c) Her father's.
(d) Jay Garfield's.

6. What is Lauren's stepmother's first language?
(a) French.
(b) Portugese.
(c) Italian.
(d) Spanish.

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

8. What family is moving to Olivar?
(a) The Olaminas.
(b) The Hsus.
(c) The Garfields.
(d) The Balters.

9. When does Lauren have her recurring dream?
(a) When she is content.
(b) When she is excited.
(c) When she struggles.
(d) When she is frightened.

10. Why doesn't Reverend Olamina think the company accepts them?
(a) They don't want a minister's family.
(b) They are too poor.
(c) They are overeducated.
(d) They are a Black and Hispanic family.

11. What is special about the water used for the baptism?
(a) It is bought by Lauren herself.
(b) It is free.
(c) It is colored blue.
(d) It is fresh and clean.

12. What family is affected by the latest robbery, in Chapter 11?
(a) The Cruz family.
(b) The Dunns.
(c) The Hsus.
(d) The Balters.

13. What kind of roofs do the houses have?
(a) Spanish tile.
(b) Wood.
(c) Asphalt shingles.
(d) Thatch.

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

15. What does Lauren do to the dog at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Captures it.
(b) Feeds it.
(c) Pets it.
(d) Shoots it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Keith say that his friends on the outside find him useful?

2. How many people are killed in the storm in the Gulf of Mexico?

3. What does the group, searching in the hills, find in the tree branches?

4. What does Lauren decide to call her belief system?

5. What does Reverend Olamina do when Keith returns?

(see the answer keys)

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