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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sgt. Schorr's specialty?
(a) Defense.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Logistics.
(d) Hospitality.

2. What is Josh worried about when he and the others discover they are trapped in the shelter?
(a) They have no water.
(b) They will run out of food.
(c) PawPaw is going insane and may be dangerous.
(d) They will run out of air.

3. From what does Paul Thorson save Sister and Artie?
(a) A blizzard.
(b) A pack of wolves.
(c) A hostile gang.
(d) A bear.

4. What happens to "the man who likes movies" during his encounter with Sister Creep?
(a) He bursts into flames.
(b) He questions his motives.
(c) He loses his powers.
(d) He becomes distracted and bored.

5. What does Macklin do with the survivors who have keloids?
(a) He forces them out of the camp.
(b) He executes them.
(c) He quarantines them.
(d) He forces them into hard labor.

6. As he lies trapped, Colonel Macklin has a flashback to his time in what place?
(a) Korea.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Gambia.
(d) Kosovo.

7. After the collapse, Macklin worries about what resource within Earth House?
(a) Water.
(b) Air supply.
(c) Personnel.
(d) Food.

8. Roland and Macklin barter with the Fat Man for a tent that formerly belonged to whom?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A mad man.
(c) A widow.
(d) A family with a baby.

9. What does Swan see in the smoked mirror?
(a) The nuclear attacks.
(b) Halland and Sister holding the glass ring.
(c) Josh dying to defend her.
(d) A field of green crops.

10. What injury has Josh sustained during the initial nuclear attacks?
(a) He lost one ear.
(b) He lost his hearing.
(c) He was temporarily blinded.
(d) His leg was broken.

11. What best encapsulates Colonel Macklin's mantra?
(a) Endurance and sagacity.
(b) Strength and wisdom.
(c) Discipline and control.
(d) Speed and deceit.

12. What happens to the part of the glass ring that Doyle touches?
(a) It shatters.
(b) It burns him.
(c) It bursts into blue flame.
(d) It turns dark.

13. Sister's group passes through what tunnel as they flee Manhattan?
(a) The Holland tunnel.
(b) The Clark Street tunnel.
(c) The Steinway tunnel.
(d) The Lincoln tunnel.

14. Sister Creep has what occupation at the beginning of the novel?
(a) She runs a soup kitchen.
(b) She is a social worker.
(c) She is a nun.
(d) She is homeless.

15. What was Josh Hutchins' former profession?
(a) Police officer.
(b) Football player.
(c) Coast guard diver.
(d) Private detective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie dream of when he uses the glass ring?

2. The President's council advises him to set the Defcon status to what level when United States borders are threatened?

3. What does Leona do to buy more time for Josh and Swan?

4. What is Sister Creep's "magic place"?

5. Whom did Sister see in the dream walk she had after she and Artie escaped from Doyle?

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