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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 alarm sound for the Harris house?
(a) A hammer beating a barrel.
(b) A tuba.
(c) A duck call.
(d) An old bell.

2. What does Lisa say she had been doing a few weeks ago?
(a) Sitting in social studies class.
(b) Figuring out where to get food.
(c) Fighting with the boy down the street.
(d) Eating pizza with her mom and dad.

3. What were the meetings that Lisa attended on Mondays before the plague?
(a) Girl Scouts.
(b) Drama Club.
(c) 4-H.
(d) Science Club.

4. What does Lisa realize she must do in order to keep the food they find safe from other children wanting to steal them?
(a) Keep only enough food for one day at a time.
(b) Hide them in places other kids won't look.
(c) Make them look like they are ruined.
(d) Keep only spinach in the house so others won't want them.

5. Who is appointed to head up the militia?
(a) Steve.
(b) Julie.
(c) Craig.
(d) Todd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do members of the Chidester Gang think Tom Logan is dead?

2. What kind of crops are growing in the fields of the first farm where Lisa stops?

3. What is the first promise Lisa asks Craig to make in chapter six?

4. What is the task assigned to Julie and her family?

5. What does Charlie say they should do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lisa find in her closet that reminds her of her old life, and how does she feel when she finds it?

2. Briefly tell what the man wrote to his son John in the letter Lisa found on the writing desk.

3. What are some of the things Lisa takes from the house she breaks into?

4. What does Lisa discover when she returns to the house with the second load of supplies from the farm?

5. What kind of training do the children dislike most and who is teaching them about this?

6. How is the Chidester gang chased off when the attack the neighborhood while Craig and Lisa are away?

7. Describe the party Lisa and the other children have at Lake Ellyn.

8. Describe how Lisa and Craig get to the warehouse and how they get in.

9. What does Lisa start to say about the children who didn't come out to fight off the gang, why does she change her mind and why does she let the children tell the story any way they choose?

10. Describe what the children do during their holiday?

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