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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann observe as she sits in her cave at night?
(a) There might be more than one visitor.
(b) The visitor had built a fire in the yard.
(c) The person seems young.
(d) The cows had returned to the barn.

2. Where does Ann take the cows and young bull?
(a) To a far pasture.
(b) To the cave.
(c) To the neighobor's farm.
(d) No where.

3. With what information does the book open in the first sentence?
(a) Ann and her family are alone in the valley.
(b) Someone is coming.
(c) There was a nuclear holocaust.
(d) The cows are acting strangely.

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

5. From where is the pond fed?
(a) An underground spring.
(b) A well that is not capped.
(c) Ann does not know.
(d) Burden Creek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ann go down to the farm yard with her gun?

2. What was the most noticeable thing about the man after he walks back to his cart?

3. What does the man notice in Burden Creek?

4. What does the man set up in the front yard?

5. How does Ann feel about the man being there as she gets ready to sleep that night?

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