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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. In Chapter 11 when Rod and Roy attempt to return to their settlement, what injury significantly delays their progress?
(a) Rod breaks his leg.
(b) Roy breaks his leg.
(c) Roy crasks his ribs.
(d) Rod cracks his ribs.

2. The historian is chosen based on what criteria?
(a) She has the best writing skills.
(b) She is the only one who has writing paper.
(c) He is the only one who has writing paper.
(d) He has the best writing skills.

3. In Chapter 12 why are many students, including Grant, less than enthusiastic about moving to the caves Rod and Roy have discovered?
(a) They have made many improvements to their current settlement.
(b) They don't want to lose the magnificent view their settlement offers.
(c) Caves can be claustrophobic.
(d) Other students found a better settlement upstream.

4. When Rod leaves the settlement with Roy to seek out a better location, who is appointed city manager in his place?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Cliff.
(d) Arthur.

5. Early in Chapter 14, Caroline complains about whose lack of sanitation?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Bruce and his wife.
(c) Bob and Carmen.
(d) Cliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rod insist, at the end of Chapter 13, that the students should stay put rather than move their settlement?

2. Three days downstream on their expedition, Rod and Roy find how many girls in a small cave?

3. In Chapter 16, after his return home, Rod's inability to adjust to normal life leads him to seek advice from whom?

4. How much time off from guard duty does Grant give to Bob in Chapter 10 because he is newly married?

5. How is the first part of Chapter 11 different from the rest of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. The first part of Chapter 11 is told from whose point of view?

2. What vote do the students make while Rod is recovering from the dopey joe attack?

3. What happens to Grant during the dopey joes' aggressive period?

4. Who stands up for Bob and Carmen during their wedding ceremony?

5. Who finally convinces Rod to return home to Earth?

6. Why don't students want to relocate to the caves Rod and Roy discovered?

7. Why does Rod banish Jock and his friends, four older boys, from the colony?

8. Why, according to Caroline, is Carmen unable to relocate to a new place?

9. During a square dance in Chapter 14, what do almost all of the students say they would do if rescuers come?

10. What creature attacks Roy, surprising him?

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