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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. Why is Bohdan Taras overseeing the Patrona Bridge?
(a) There is a medical facility nearby that needs to be protected.
(b) It is a checkpoint for the military.
(c) The town is being evacuated.
(d) It is being protecting from infected people.

2. What does "The Whacko" tell a tree during his interview with the narrator?
(a) That it has beautiful leaves.
(b) That it's doing a good job.
(c) That a squirrel is living in it.
(d) That it doesn't need to grow so quickly.

3. What do rumors say a "death squad" priests are?
(a) Priests sent to sacrifice themselves to zombies as human bait.
(b) Priests sent to kill civilians who questioned the Church under the guise of them being infected.
(c) Priests sent to kill enemies under a guise of saving the infected.
(d) Priests sent to kill infected soldiers under the guise of saving other soldiers.

4. What is a "hibakusha?"
(a) A zombie.
(b) One who was blinded in the bomb on Hiroshima.
(c) An outsider.
(d) One who is immune to the illness.

5. What does Sardar Khanin see crawling all over people on a Himalayan road?
(a) Infected people.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jesika Hendricks return to the wilderness park in Canada every year?

2. Where was Terry Knox during the war?

3. According to Jurgen Warmbrunn, why were there no survivors of the Holocaust?

4. What is Arthur Sinclair's new job?

5. What is T. Sean Collins now unable to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of Chapter 4?

2. According to Maria Zhuganova, how is Russia coping after the war?

3. When speaking with the narrator, Jesika Hendricks casually kills a zombie as it begins to reanimate. What does this reveal about her?

4. Why do the different people have such different reactions to life after the war?

5. Why does the author end with Todd Wainio's story?

6. Explain why the pass in India needs to be destroyed, according to Sardar Khanin.

7. How does Kwang Jingshu feel about life and China after the war?

8. Explain how Jesika Hendricks and her parents were able to survive the winter.

9. How are Jesika Hendricks and Mary Jo Miller different in the way they place blame in Chapter 8?

10. Explain how the United States's desire to go to war is a turning point in the story.

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