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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann worry about concerning the tomatoes?
(a) They are stunted and she wonders if it's radiation.
(b) The beetles are eating a lot of them.
(c) How to get them canned when she is not living at the house.
(d) They need special fertilizer.

2. What does Loomis do with Faro?
(a) Kicks him.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Feeds him and then ties him.
(d) Sends him away.

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

4. What does Ann figure Loomis assumes?
(a) His rifle shot misses her.
(b) She may be dead.
(c) She is afraid of him.
(d) She is gravely injured.

5. About what does Ann tell Loomis?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her secret diary.
(c) Her cellar with lots of canned goods.
(d) Her radio that is still working.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ann's first impulse when the man yells for anyone?

2. What does Ann decide to plant?

3. What does Ann worry about if the stranger is still here in winter?

4. What is Mr. Loomis able to do on the fourth day after he is conscious?

5. What does Loomis say about the night the bombs fall?

(see the answer key)

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