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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 the old couple doing when Theo knocks on their door?
(a) The woman was on the phone, the man was napping.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Reading.
(d) Watching television.

2. What does Theo say he is absolute of as he closes his diary entry in Chapter 26?
(a) The safe delivery of the baby.
(b) Dangers and horrors to come.
(c) Marrying Julian.
(d) Being found by Xan.

3. Why does Theo pull the car over in Chapter 23?
(a) The car overheated.
(b) They wanted to pick berries for later.
(c) Julian had to go to the bathroom.
(d) Julian thought she was going into labor.

4. Who are Rolf's political views most similar to?
(a) Jasper.
(b) Rosie McClure.
(c) Xan.
(d) Julian.

5. Who are Theo and the Five Fishes greeted by after they stop the car due to a downed tree?
(a) Omegas.
(b) Sojourners.
(c) The SSP.
(d) Flagellants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sleeps in the car after Theo and the Five Fishes have to camp because of the flat tire?

2. What word does Rolf use to say that Theo is not the leader of this?

3. Why does Theo step outside the woodshed during the preparations for the birthing?

4. What is the mood of the characters in Chapter 26?

5. Who has knocked at Theo's door in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Theo plan for Julian to escape the attackers? Does the plan work? What is unsuccessful?

2. What do Theo, Miriam, and Julian learn when they listen to the radio?

3. What does Helena tell Theo when he returns, and why does she want him off the phone?

4. How do Theo and the Five Fishes get delayed in Chapter 24?

5. Why does Theo take Miriam inside to Jasper's, and not to Rolf?

6. Why does Miriam come for Theo?

7. Summarize the confrontation between Xan and Theo.

8. What does Theo lash out at Julian over? What does he wish to do after, and what does he do instead?

9. What does Miriam inform Theo of in the car, and what is his reaction? Who knows and who doesn't know the secret?

10. Who does Theo see at the market after the SSP come to his home, and what happens between them?

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