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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Ann take the cows and young bull?
(a) To the cave.
(b) No where.
(c) To the neighobor's farm.
(d) To a far pasture.

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

4. Who returns to the valley?
(a) No one.
(b) The Kleins.
(c) Faro.
(d) David.

5. What seems to puzzle the man after he goes inside Ann's home?
(a) Faro isn't barking at the man.
(b) No one is there.
(c) There are green plants in the sunroom.
(d) There is fresh food in the cabinets.

6. What animal ran off after Ann's family went exploring?
(a) The donkey.
(b) The cat.
(c) The dog.
(d) The horse.

7. How does Ann spend much of the next day?
(a) Gathering the chickens.
(b) Planting greens.
(c) Plowing fields with the tractor.
(d) Bringing the cows to the front pasture.

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

9. 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.

10. What does Ann decide to do about safety?
(a) She will hide all the guns in the cave.
(b) She will rig up an alram system.
(c) She won't swim alone.
(d) She will hide from whoever is coming towards the valley.

11. What does Loomis think the Creek water could do?
(a) Generate electricity.
(b) Pollute the pond.
(c) Keep trespassers away.
(d) Eventually become harmless.

12. What does Faro point to in the field?
(a) A quail.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A dove.
(d) A grouse.

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

14. What does the man set up in the front yard?
(a) A radio transmitter.
(b) A hand-cranked generator.
(c) A water purification filter.
(d) A tent.

15. Why does Ann decide to keep the man in sight for the first two or more?
(a) To see if he discovers anything about her.
(b) To figure out a way to incapacitate him.
(c) To decide whether to kill him or not.
(d) To learn of his habits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ann do later in the day without Loomis?

2. What does Ann think about in a flashback to right after the war?

3. What does Loomis show Ann in one of her father's books?

4. What does Ann observe as she sits in her cave at night?

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

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