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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wins the Presidential election?
(a) Donner.
(b) Smith.
(c) Sims.
(d) Hsu.

3. Where does Keith want to move to?
(a) Detroit.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. What does Keith bring back for his brothers Bennett and Gregory?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Water.
(d) Chocolate.

5. How many television sets are left in the neighborhood?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

6. What do the garden thieves take from the Hsu and Talcott homes?
(a) Money.
(b) Citrus fruits.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Guns.

7. How long does Lauren think her money lasts?
(a) For a year.
(b) A day.
(c) About two weeks.
(d) About a month.

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

9. Where is the man that Keith steals from on the freeway headed?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Canada.

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

11. What are Lauren and her stepmother doing outside in Lauren's dream?
(a) Patrolling the grounds for thieves.
(b) Weeding.
(c) Taking the laundry from the clothesline.
(d) Watering the garden.

12. Who starts the fire in the neighborhood?
(a) Harry Balter.
(b) Amy Dunn.
(c) Joanne Garfield.
(d) Tracy Dunn.

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

14. What disease is running rampant in southern Mississippi and Louisiana?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Measles.
(c) Influenza.
(d) The plague.

15. How are Wardell Parrish and Rosalee Payne related?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They are married.
(c) They are father and daughter.
(d) They are twins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lauren's stepmother say we can afford?

2. Why does the group from the neighborhood go into the hills?

3. How many wives does Richard Moss have?

4. What do Kayla Talcott and Lauren's birth mother have in common?

5. What doesn't Lauren's stepmother see when she is a girl?

(see the answer keys)

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