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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. What does Swan find intact when she and Josh reach the surface?
(a) A scarecrow.
(b) Her Cookie Monster doll.
(c) Her mother's car.
(d) A billboard for Earth House.

2. What major event is Sister Creep waiting for?
(a) The Rapture.
(b) The coming of a pagan god.
(c) The presidential election.
(d) The magnetic alignment of the earth.

3. What minor problem cascades into a major disaster at Earth House shortly after the nuclear attacks begin?
(a) An electrical short.
(b) A personnel shortage.
(c) A plumbing issue.
(d) A structural crack.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sister Creep find the glass ring?

2. What grizzly sight do Josh, Swan, and Leona see when they enter the K-mart?

3. When he comes to his senses, Colonel Macklin realizes he is trapped where?

4. Rusty Weathers belonged to what kind of an organization?

5. What enables Roland to defend himself from the Fat Man?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Roland, Macklin, and Warner plan to gain access to Earth House's emergency stores? How successful is their plan?

2. Why does Sister "Creep" get into a fight in Chapter 2?

3. What is unusual about the fight that Josh engages in in Chapter 2?

4. How does Sister Creep react to seeing the Spanish woman's dead child?

5. What is the strategy of the United States to prevent further advances by the USSR?

6. What major events does Sister "Creep" believe will happen very soon?

7. What are Macklin's first actions as the new ruler of the Salt Lake settlement?

8. What disagreement does Colonel Macklin have with the builders of Earth House?

9. What does "the man who likes movies" want when he is at the Empire State Theatre, and how does he get it?

10. Why does Sister decide to continue to Kansas?

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