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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third principle that Thatcher presents in his debate with Cutler in Chapter 12?
(a) "Individuals within a population are variable" (320).
(b) "Survival is not haphazard" (323).
(c) "Death stalks us all!" (321).
(d) "Traits in their variation are inherited" (320).

2. Where does Willis say Carruth was shot?
(a) In the left hand.
(b) In the back of the head.
(c) In in right hip.
(d) In the shoulder.

3. What is Willa's profession?
(a) She is a journalist.
(b) She is a banker.
(c) She is a business analyst.
(d) She is a dancer.

4. How long does the narrator say Willa had spent in Boston in Chapter 3?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 months.

5. What does "SIDS" refer to in the narrative?
(a) Sudden Internal Death Syndrom.
(b) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
(c) Synaptic Identity Deterioration Syndrome.
(d) Severe Internal Detachment Syndrome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is giving the lecture that Thatcher attends in the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. Who is helping feed Nick when Willa arrives at the hospital in Chapter 9?

3. Willa compares listening to the news radio stations to listening to whom reporting on the alien invasion in Chapter 13?

4. For how long have Thatcher and Rose Greenwood been married when they are introduced in the novel in Chapter 2?

5. Whose family is described in Chapter 11 as "a big, loyal household of parentless siblings holding it all together" (290)?

(see the answer key)

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