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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 is described as “Step Five” in Zombie’s escape plan in Part X: “A Thousand Ways,” Chapter 79?
(a) “Nugget.”
(b) “The tracker.”
(c) “Call home.”
(d) “Kill Kistner.”

2. Where does Cassie find her M-16 in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill,” Chapter 54?
(a) Under the couch.
(b) The barn.
(c) Under the bed.
(d) The attic.

3. The narrator says in Part XIII: “The Black Hole,” Chapter 87, “That’s the flaw in Vosch’s master plan: If you don’t kill all of us all at once, those who remain will” what?
(a) “Be ready to fight.”
(b) “Not be the weak.”
(c) “Be the weakest.”
(d) “Hate you for it.”

4. All three of the people Cassie finds shot by Evan in Part IX: “A Flower to the Rain,” Chapter 69 are described as having been shot where?
(a) The head.
(b) The chest.
(c) The leg.
(d) The arm.

5. Who takes Sammy away from Cassie and to the Safe Room in Part XIII: “The Black Hole,” Chapter 85?
(a) A Silencer.
(b) Parker.
(c) Hutchfield.
(d) Dr. Pam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evan admit to having done in Part IX: “A Flower to the Rain,” Chapter 68?

2. What is the number that Cassie gives when the authority figure demands it in Part XI: “The Infinite Sea”?

3. When Cassie hears Sam calling out her name in Part XI: “The Infinite Sea,” she describes having a lump in her throat the size of what?

4. Who does the narrator see reaching her hand out in the dark in the end of Part XII: “Because of Kistner”?

5. What color do the infected humans supposedly glow through the special eyewear that Zombie’s squad wears in Part VIII: “The Spirit of Vengeance”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What choice is Cassie given in order to save Sammy in Part XIII: “The Black Hole”?

2. What discovery does Ringer and Zombie make on the battlefield in Part VIII: “The Spirit of Vengeance”?

3. How do the protagonists of the novel escape in the ending of Part XIII: “The Black Hole”?

4. How does Evan respond when Cassie confronts him about what she found in the barn in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill”?

5. What aspect of Evan’s physicality causes Cassie to doubt his intentions in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill”?

6. How does Evan explain his relationship to the Others in Part IX: “A Flower to the Rain”?

7. How does Cassie progress in making her way into the compound in Part XI: “The Infinite Sea”?

8. What does Cassie promise herself as she makes her way toward Sammy in Part XI: “The Infinite Sea”?

9. What does Cassie find in the barn at Evan’s farm in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill”? How does she react?

10. Who narrates Part X: “A Thousand Ways”? What is the setting that opens this section of the novel?

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