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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann decide she will do after cooking breakfast?
(a) Go fishing.
(b) Write in her journal.
(c) Go to the store.
(d) Practice the piano.

2. Where is the man?
(a) Gone.
(b) In his tent unconscious.
(c) Swimming in the pond.
(d) Gathering eggs.

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

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

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

6. What does the man do at the pond?
(a) Puts a chemical in the water.
(b) Takes a reading with some kind of instrument.
(c) Goes fishing.
(d) Bathes.

7. What does Ann use to gather greens?
(a) A wheelbarrow.
(b) The basket her mother always used.
(c) A rolling suitcase.
(d) A plastic grocery bag.

8. What does Loomis show Ann in one of her father's books?
(a) How to build a water wheel.
(b) How to build a wind turbine.
(c) How to build a greenhouse.
(d) How to get gas out of the pumps manually.

9. What is the man wearing who arrives in Ann's sight?
(a) A military uniform.
(b) Coveralls.
(c) A strange plastic suit.
(d) A business suit.

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

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

12. Who goes with Ann to gather the greens?
(a) A barn cat.
(b) Loomis.
(c) Faro.
(d) The young bull.

13. How does Loomis get there from where he started?
(a) Horseback until the horse dies.
(b) Walking.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Car until he ran out of gas.

14. What does Ann do later in the day without Loomis?
(a) Visit the church.
(b) Row on the pond.
(c) Walk to the store.
(d) Fish.

15. What does Ann do to the chickens before hiding out?
(a) Puts them in small wire cages and takes them to the cave.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Kills them.
(d) Chases them out of their fenced in area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't Ann think the man is in a car?

2. What does the visitor do when he first arrives over a hill and sees the green valley?

3. What does Loomis' boss' invention do?

4. What intrigues the man as he is making breakfast?

5. What does Ann decide she should do?

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