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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the man lay on top of his cart?
(a) An oxygen tank.
(b) A gun.
(c) Another Geiger counter.
(d) A dog biscuit.

2. Why does Ann have Loomis move into the house?
(a) So he could help with the household chores.
(b) To care for him more easily.
(c) So he would feel good towards her.
(d) She leaves him in his tent.

3. Who was to come to the lab where Loomis worked?
(a) His children.
(b) The military.
(c) A panel of judges for the Noble laureate committee.
(d) The President.

4. What happens when Ann asks him about the person in question 63?
(a) He says he does not want to talk about it.
(b) He drops his glass of water.
(c) He starts sobbing.
(d) He gets angry.

5. What does Ann see when she goes and looks out of the boundaries of her valley?
(a) A valley about 40 miles away that has signs of life.
(b) Smoke in three different directions.
(c) Lots of animals but no people.
(d) Everything is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does Ann ask Loomis?

2. Where does her parents say they are going first in their explorations?

3. What does Ann think about in a flashback to right after the war?

4. From where is the pond fed?

5. Why does Ann decide to hide from a visitor?

(see the answer key)

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