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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After four days, what does Loomis' temperature mean?
(a) He is pretty much cured.
(b) He is still in the interim period.
(c) He has the worse form of radiation.
(d) He will get sicker, but will most likely survive.

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

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

4. What did Loomis' boss invent?
(a) An amoeba.
(b) A polymer.
(c) A new kind of Geiger counter.
(d) A new kind of metal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ann's father returns from scouting the first time he went out, what does he report finding?

2. Why doesn't Ann use the tractor?

3. For what is Loomis searching?

4. What seems to puzzle the man after he goes inside Ann's home?

5. What does Ann hope?

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