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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. What is the smell Lisa detects in the kitchen?

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

3. What is the focus of Jill's life?

4. What color are the letters of the grocery warehouse sign?

5. What street is Lisa's house on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Lisa and Todd arrange an alarm system to alert them to intruders?

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

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

5. Briefly describe the letter Lisa finds on the table in the farm house.

6. 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?

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

8. What does Lisa learn about Julie and Charlie?

9. What is Jill's argument when Lisa says the children at Jill's house will have to help with patrols? What is Lisa's response?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the sense of duty Lisa feels toward the children who live in the high school. Why does she feel this way? Craig initially feels a sense of duty as well and puts off his own dream of farming to be the leader of the militia and to teach the children. What changes for Craig? Was he wrong? Compare the attitudes of Lisa and Craig.

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 Jill take in so many children when she's having trouble feeding them all? Was she right to do this? Support your answer.

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