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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. Who takes Jack's place on Rod's hunting team in Chapter 8 after Jack is injured?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Roy.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Caroline.

2. Why does Rod banish Jock and his friends from camp?
(a) Jock and his friends steal food from the camp.
(b) Jock and his friends request an election be held to try to remove Rod from his leadership position.
(c) Jock refuses Rod's request to help build a wall, and a fight ensues.
(d) Jock and his friends steal weapons from the other students.

3. Why does Bob order Rod to avoid heavy work and sleep on his stomach, after Rod's argument with Jock in Chapter 8?
(a) He has been hit by a poison dart.
(b) He has been punched in the stomach.
(c) He has fallen off of a small ledge.
(d) He has been knifed in the ribs.

4. 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) Rod cracks his ribs.
(c) Roy crasks his ribs.
(d) Roy breaks his leg.

5. What is the new name given to the settlement, as mentioned early in Chapter 14?
(a) Joeville.
(b) Walkertown.
(c) Grant's Farm.
(d) Cowpertown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Grant want the historian to record the special knowledge of the group?

2. In Chapter 10, what position does Grant ask Rod to assume after Rod insists that changes must be made?

3. In Chapter 16 how does Helen respond, when Rod's father asks her to return guardianship to him and Rod's mother?

4. Why, according to Caroline in Chapter 12, can't Bob and Carmen move to a new settlement site anytime soon?

5. During his expedition with Rod in Chapter 11, why does Roy kill a dopey joe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Grant and Rod build in an attempt to protect their camp from the stampeding animals?

3. Why do Bob and Carmen ask to wait a day when their friends consider abandoning Grant's rule and forming a new colony?

4. At the end of the novel, what is Rod doing?

5. Under Grant's leadership, how frequently are town meetings held?

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

7. Why do some students in the settlement start to feel disenchanted with Grant's leadership?

8. What creature attacks Roy, surprising him?

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

10. When rescuers arrive, who is the only student who refuses to return home?

(see the answer keys)

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