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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 does Allison get Will onto her makeshift bed on the table?
(a) The dog helps her.
(b) He is conscious enough to walk to the bed.
(c) She uses her block and tackle to lift him.
(d) She has gotten strong enough to lift him.

2. After getting off the bus, where does Will find himself when he wakes up?
(a) Back in the greenhouse.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A retirement community.
(d) In the backseat of his car.

3. What are the animals that Will finds when he is trying to escape from the cave?
(a) Fish.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Bats.
(d) Bears.

4. What does Will propose to do for the man he met on the bus?
(a) Give him a job selling home loans.
(b) Put him to work as a contractor building homes.
(c) Have him help Allison with the garden.
(d) Hire him as a cook.

5. Who does Allison think Will is when he first arrives at the greenhouse?
(a) A hiker.
(b) Dr. Duk.
(c) Her father.
(d) An Atlantean.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Allison wash the cave clay off of Will and his clothes?

2. How does Kitty find Will sleeping in his car?

3. What does the doctor think is wrong with Allison?

4. Why does Kitty tell Will that he can never see Allison again?

5. Where did Father Weatherbee spend fifty years of his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Will dream that the country club becomes in the future while he is sleeping in his car?

2. Why does Will end up needing to be in Dr. Vance's daily care?

3. What psychological breakthrough does Will make as he sits in his car thinking?

4. What forces Will to leave the cave?

5. How does Allison find Will?

6. When Will sees himself in the mirror of his Mercedes after leaving the greenhouse, what does he think he looks like?

7. Where has Will's daughter, Leslie, moved while he has been away at the cave and the greenhouse?

8. After Will falls into the greenhouse, what is it that makes Allison think she knows who he is before she sees his face?

9. When Will is thinking things over in his Mercedes, what does he decide the name of the century should be?

10. What happens to Will's guns at the end of the novel?

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