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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 does Lanser think will restore order in the town?
(a) Execution of the leaders.
(b) Random shootings.
(c) A week of no food rations.
(d) Fearless raids on houses.

2. What injury does Correll have when the packages are sent?
(a) His head was cut.
(b) His arm is broken.
(c) His hand is smashed.
(d) His knee is sprained.

3. How does Tonder describe Mrs. Morden when he stops by her house?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Alluring.
(c) Attractive.
(d) Desperate.

4. Who is sent to retrieve all the packages dropped?
(a) The children.
(b) The women.
(c) The miners.
(d) The soldiers.

5. Why are the miners not punished with smaller food portions?
(a) They need their strength to mine.
(b) It is unconstitutional.
(c) They all have their own food.
(d) It is against war rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tonder order the other men to do in regards to Mrs. Morden?

2. What is the main punishment given to the miners?

3. What does Mrs. Morder first think Tonder wants when he comes to her house?

4. Why is Mrs. Morden doing what she is doing when Annie comes by?

5. What kind of lanterns are lit when electricity goes down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes the soldiers so miserable during the winter?

2. How could the people use the dynamite sent to them by the air drops?

3. Why does Annie get suspicious of Molly?

4. What was the quote that the Mayor was thinking of before his execution?

5. What does Lanser plead with the Mayor to do before his execution, and what did this show?

6. Why does Winters say the enemy has underestimated his people?

7. What happened to Tom and Will's brother?

8. What does the Mayor say to his wife before his execution?

9. What do Tom and Will plan to do as they ecape, and why?

10. What do the townspeople do to make the soldiers weaker?

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