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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 committee is Jack appointed to under Grant's new government?
(a) Food preparation.
(b) Waste disposal and camp sanitation.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Constitution, codification, and organization.

2. Who arrives on the unknown planet along with Deacon Matson, to convince Rod to return home?
(a) Teachers from the other three schools whose students were stranded.
(b) Rod's sister, Helen.
(c) Deacon Matson's son.
(d) Rod's parents.

3. What is the full name of Grant, as shown on the memorial slab in the village square?
(a) Ulysses Grant Cowper.
(b) Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Ulysses S. Cowper.
(d) Grant S. Cowper.

4. In Chapter 8, who is the first person elected to be group leader?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Rod.
(c) Grant.
(d) Arthur.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How is Jack injured early in Chapter 8?

4. Which member of the settlement is an aspiring medical student?

5. Why don't Bob and Carmen want to leave with their friends immediately following the elections in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Deacon Matson finally define as a stobor?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why do Rod and Roy embark on an expedition downstream from their settlement?

8. What demands does Rod make of Grant in Chapter 10, before agreeing to serve as his city manager?

9. Who becomes the first elected mayor of the student settlement in Chapter 8?

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

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