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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After four days, what does Loomis' temperature mean?
(a) He is pretty much cured.
(b) He will get sicker, but will most likely survive.
(c) He has the worse form of radiation.
(d) He is still in the interim period.

2. What did Ann and her brother realize about Burden Creek?
(a) It is good water.
(b) It could be use to generate electricity.
(c) It's flow changed.
(d) It is poisoned.

3. How many people has Loomis met on his journey?
(a) None besides Ann.
(b) Less than a dozen.
(c) Two others besides Ann.
(d) Several thousand.

4. What seems to puzzle the man after he goes inside Ann's home?
(a) No one is there.
(b) Faro isn't barking at the man.
(c) There are green plants in the sunroom.
(d) There is fresh food in the cabinets.

5. What does Ann hope?
(a) Faro will not show up.
(b) The Creek is no longer radioactive.
(c) The cows will be too skittish to get near the man.
(d) The calf will keep the cow from getting uncomfortable with too much milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bothers Ann about the man and her chickens?

2. What does Ann decide to do about safety?

3. How does Ann know what she states in the opening sentence?

4. With what information does the book open in the first sentence?

5. Of what is the man afraid?

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