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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 is different about children born after the war?
(a) They are taught how to avoid zombies in school.
(b) They are immune to the illness.
(c) Their nursery rhymes are about zombies.
(d) They have no fear of zombies.

2. What does Jesika Hendricks have a hard time dealing with after the war?
(a) That her parents had cryptic conversations about her.
(b) That people no longer care about the environment.
(c) That her parents died while others lived.
(d) That many of the dead are not remembered.

3. What about Tomonaga Ijiro does Kondo Tatsumi disagree with?
(a) His spirituality.
(b) His dedication to political leadership.
(c) His plan for the future of Japan.
(d) His political beliefs.

4. What animals were too inconsistent in smelling out zombies during the war?
(a) Calico cats.
(b) Mixed breed dogs.
(c) Purebred dogs.
(d) Persian cats.

5. What is Todd Wainio's relationship status at the end of the novel?
(a) Married.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Widowed.
(d) Single.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in North Korea during the war?

2. What is Z-shock?

3. What does Kondo Tatsumi say about both his own and Tomonaga Ijiro's generations?

4. What does Kondo Tatsumi say about his own generation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the soldiers in Chapter 4 kill innocent people, and how they feel about these actions.

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

3. Why is T. Sean Collins having trouble adapting to life after the war?

4. How does Joe Muhammad feel about life after the war?

5. What do Philip Adler and Jurgen Warmbrunn have in common in Chapter 8?

6. Explain what happened in North Korea during the war. What does Hyungchol Choi speculate happened?

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

8. How has Kwang Jingshu's perspective changed after the war?

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

10. Explain the changes to the military after the announcement to go to war, according to Todd Wainio.

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