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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. Whence comes Natalie’s math teacher?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Belize.

2. In what grade is Natalie in the novel?
(a) Seventh.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Ninth.

3. How do Owen and George decide who will look out from the polar bear trap?
(a) Flipping a coin.
(b) Rock, Paper, Scissors.
(c) Rolling dice.
(d) Bloody knuckles.

4. Which of the following does Akira encounter in the woods?
(a) Moles.
(b) Gophers.
(c) Pikas.
(d) Moles.

5. Gratz notes that the Arctic sea ice cover has shrunken by the size of which state each year since 1980?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Gratz cite as inspiration for the book?

2. Which of the following do the vigilantes “protect”?

3. To what does Natalie compare the debris left by the first part of the storm?

4. How many stories tall is Akira’s house?

5. Which of the following do the vigilantes “protect”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads Owen to consider the ruination of Churchill?

2. Why does the area in which Patience lives rise above the storm water early on?

3. What urges Natalie to seek shelter with Patience?

4. How does the novel describe horses’ vision?

5. What prevented Lars from going back after Akira?

6. Why does the restauranteur Natalie encounters hesitate to open her freezer?

7. What occasions the food shortage in Churchill that Owen recalls?

8. What, in the novel, is a “polar bear welcome mat” (2339)?

9. To what does the novel liken a first-degree burn?

10. Why does Akira initially wonder if the plane she sees overhead is lost?

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