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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann think the visitor is bringing?
(a) News.
(b) Disease.
(c) Heavy equipment and/or supplies.
(d) Hope.

2. What does Ann smell as she is gathering greens?
(a) Crabapple blossoms.
(b) Wild onions.
(c) Pear blossoms.
(d) Dandelions.

3. What does the man do at Burden Creek?
(a) Takes some soil samples of the creek bed.
(b) Takes a bath.
(c) Puts a chemical in the water.
(d) Checks for radiation.

4. About whom does Ann ask Loomis?
(a) Walter.
(b) His wife.
(c) Edward.
(d) His son.

5. What does Ann worry about if the stranger is still here in winter?
(a) Having enough food if feeding two.
(b) Having enough wood.
(c) Sharing a house with a stranger.
(d) Surviving winter in a cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ann play for Mr. Loomis?

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

3. About what was Ann correct, much to Loomis' dismay?

4. Of what does Loomis say Ann's family probably died?

5. What happens when Ann asks him about the person in question 63?

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