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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 Poplar Street surrounded by?

2. What does Tak try to get Peter to eat?

3. What is missing that makes Seth so angry?

4. To what year has Poplar Street been transformed?

5. Who taps the doctor on the shoulder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has the trash that was beside the path turned into?

2. Why does Audrey think that Seth's family was killed?

3. What has Tak come to do?

4. What do Audrey and Johnny have to do to stop the horror on Poplar Street?

5. What is strange about the way that the animals die?

6. What is Audrey referring to when she says that it is too early for any "movement" yet?

7. Describe Audrey's phone call in Chapter 9.

8. What do Collie and Steve find in the greenbelt?

9. What does Seth do so that Tak is not able to re-enter him?

10. How did Tak encourage Jim to commit suicide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why the animals, plants and other things that the survivors come across look like replications of these things as a child might have created them.

Essay Topic 2

Trace the theme of good versus evil through the novel.

Essay Topic 3

What is Steve's role in the novel?

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