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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Doyle believes that Sister's group is being affected by what?
(a) A hoax.
(b) Excessive faith.
(c) Hysteria.
(d) Mass hypnosis.

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

3. What does a man do in Sister Creep's dream?
(a) He takes something from her.
(b) He gives her something precious.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He makes a promise to her.

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

5. What are Sheila's drugs known as in the settlement?
(a) Nox.
(b) Trips.
(c) Nightshade.
(d) Dirtwarts.

6. After taking control of the Salt Lake settlement, Macklin dons a uniform from what historical place and time?
(a) Nazi Germany.
(b) Soviet Russia.
(c) Fascist Italy.
(d) The Confederacy.

7. What resource do Roland and Macklin want to retrieve from Earth House after it collapses?
(a) The weapon cache.
(b) The backup generator.
(c) The emergency supply stash.
(d) Strategic maps and military codes.

8. What does Colonel Macklin believe about the Earth House?
(a) It is pointless.
(b) It is a marvel of engineering.
(c) It is structurally unsound.
(d) It is a social experiment.

9. What is Earth House?
(a) An artistic concept.
(b) A fallout shelter.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A resort.

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

11. Sister's group believes that the ring acquired its magical properties from what source?
(a) The lives of the people who died.
(b) God.
(c) The blast.
(d) Sister's faith.

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

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

14. What does Leona think she sees in Josh's face?
(a) A skull.
(b) A crucifix.
(c) A black pit.
(d) A cloud.

15. At the beginning of the novel, the United States and what other nation are gearing up for nuclear war?
(a) North Korea.
(b) The USSR.
(c) China.
(d) Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sister Creep hope to find in the Empire State Theatre?

3. In the dream walk that Sister experiences after talking with Doyle, what does she pick up?

4. According to the doctor at the Red Cross station in Homewood, about how many people (by percentage) have black scabs on their faces like Sister does?

5. After acquiring a map of the country, Sister decides to go to ____________.

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