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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where has Ann been on the morning of the opening of the book?
(a) School.
(b) In the hayloft.
(c) The doctor's office.
(d) Church.

2. What does Ann decide to plant?
(a) Cabbage and corn.
(b) Wheat and beans.
(c) Corn and beans.
(d) Corn and wheat.

3. Of what is the man afraid?
(a) Ann will make him leave.
(b) He does not say why he is afraid.
(c) He will die from radiation poisoning.
(d) They will not be able to live through the winter on short provisions.

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

5. Why does Ann begin recording the events of her day?
(a) Her father appoints her as the historian.
(b) She cannot remember the details otherwise.
(c) Her mother asks her to do so just before her mother dies.
(d) Her teacher at school suggests it is a good thing to do.

6. How long was the war?
(a) A week.
(b) A day.
(c) A couple months.
(d) They do not know.

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

8. Why does Ann decide to hide from a visitor?
(a) She does not want to scare the person.
(b) She decides there are worse things than being alone.
(c) She wants to surprise them.
(d) She has no decent clothes.

9. When Ann's father returns from scouting the first time he went out, what does he report finding?
(a) Lots of dead bodies.
(b) He never returned from his scouting expedition.
(c) Only a few have died around a 50 mile radius of their place.
(d) Some areas still have a few people.

10. How does Ann know what she states in the opening sentence?
(a) She sees smoke.
(b) They heard the news on the radio.
(c) Someone has been shooting a rifle.
(d) The dog herds the cows home who kick at Ann.

11. What is another thing the visitor does soon after examining the green leaves of a tree?
(a) He shoots his rifle into the air.
(b) He plants an American flag in the soil by the tree.
(c) He climbs the tree to reach the fruit.
(d) He checks the tree and area with a Geiger counter.

12. What does Ann think Faro will do?
(a) Bite the man.
(b) Run away again since there is a stranger at the house.
(c) Lead the man to her location.
(d) Become friends with the man.

13. What does the man do after using the Geiger counter?
(a) Clasps his hands and looks up and prays.
(b) Kneels and kisses the ground.
(c) Turn around to leave.
(d) Take off his mask.

14. Why doesn't Loomis go with Ann?
(a) He wants to write in his journal.
(b) He needs to work on generator plans.
(c) He wants to try contacting others with Ann's radio.
(d) He is too weak.

15. In addition to the suit, what does Loomis' group create that enables Loomis to survive a search for survivors?
(a) A filter to make water usuable.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A fillter to cleanse water of radiation.
(d) An invisible dome to keep fallout off his cart and supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man wearing who arrives in Ann's sight?

2. What does Ann do to the chickens before hiding out?

3. Where is Loomis from?

4. What does the man do at Burden Creek?

5. How does Ann spend much of the next day?

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