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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. Who is impatient to get home when the teens leave Hell?

2. What do the friends have with them that Corrie, Kevin and Ellie see at the meeting place?

3. Who finds the bridge on the way down into Hell?

4. What does Ellie see when she gets up to use the bathroom?

5. Who looks in the creek for gold?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Hell's Hermit?

2. What does Ellie hear on the television after she hangs up with Fiona?

3. How does Fiona attempt to explain away the planes Ellie saw in Hell?

4. Why do Lee's opinions about the planes seem to upset Ellie?

5. What emotions does Ellie feel as she considers what may have happened to her parents?

6. Why does Ellie yell at Lee when she hears the Land Rover start up?

7. Why don't the teens try to communicate over the short-wave radio?

8. What do the teens decide to do while at Homer's house?

9. What do the teens find at Corrie's house that reinforces their thought that something is dreadfully wrong?

10. In Chapter 5, why does Ellie only play True Confessions for a short period of time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Name a few events that occur in Chapters 15, 16, or 17 that demonstrate that the teens are still regular young people despite all the trouble they have faced since the invaders arrived.

Essay Topic 2

A romance seems to be brewing between Homer and Fiona in Chapters 1 through 5. Why is this surprising?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the change that begins to occur in Homer as the teens realize that their country has been invaded. How is he different from the Homer the teens used to know?

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