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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann think about in a flashback to right after the war?
(a) See a terrible flash of light and hearing the ground shake.
(b) The radio going dead.
(c) Her father feeling ill and then dying.
(d) Her family deciding to go out and check things again.

2. What does Loomis think the Creek water could do?
(a) Keep trespassers away.
(b) Pollute the pond.
(c) Eventually become harmless.
(d) Generate electricity.

3. Why doesn't Ann use the tractor?
(a) It is too big for the size of garden she is making.
(b) She does not know how to get it running.
(c) She needs gas.
(d) It has flat tires.

4. What does Ann think should possibly happen on her 17th birthday?
(a) Trying to contact others in the midwest which did not get hit so badly.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Trying to get pregnant.
(d) Leaving the valley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ann treat her bullet wound?

2. Why does Ann decide to keep the man in sight for the first two or more?

3. About whom does Ann ask Loomis?

4. What does Ann do later in the day without Loomis?

5. What is another thing the visitor does soon after examining the green leaves of a tree?

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