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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lisa and Todd go to spend the night after returning home from the warehouse?

2. What do the children use to create a barrier around the houses?

3. What is the problem Lisa discovers with the car when she goes outside the following morning?

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

5. Where does Lisa find the note from the farmer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lisa learn about Julie and Charlie?

2. What kind of life does Craig wish for and what is Lisa's response?

3. What are some of the options Lisa can think of as ways to get food?

4. What is Lisa thinking as she and Craig go to the warehouse in two cars one night?

5. Who is Jill and what does she demand of Lisa? Why does she feel Lisa should help her and what does Lisa think?

6. How has Lisa's relationship with Todd changed and what is her attitude about that?

7. 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?

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

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

10. How does Lisa explain the word "logical" to Todd?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Lisa's ultimate goals? Why does she have these goals? Do you believe she can accomplish them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Todd? Jill? Craig? Charlie? Julie? Tom? Elaine? What is the role of each in the story? How are each connected to Lisa?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Lisa move the children to the high school? How does she maintain control? How does she continue to maintain control even after hundreds of children join them?

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