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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 has the worse form of radiation.
(c) He will get sicker, but will most likely survive.
(d) He is still in the interim period.

2. Where is Loomis from?
(a) Boston.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Ithaca.
(d) North Platte.

3. Why does Ann go down to the farm yard with her gun?
(a) To get Faro.
(b) To steal some eggs.
(c) To check on the man.
(d) To confront the man.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the man?

3. What did Ann and her brother realize about Burden Creek?

4. Why does Ann have Loomis move into the house?

5. What does Ann play for Mr. Loomis?

(see the answer key)

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