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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inspires Ann to make a salad?
(a) A dream about a rabbit.
(b) Seeing an add in a magazine.
(c) A dream about her mother.
(d) Loomis talks about his salad garden.

2. What does Loomis' boss' invention do?
(a) Repels radiation.
(b) Absorbs radiation.
(c) Detects a special type of radiation.
(d) Eats radiation.

3. From where is the pond fed?
(a) Ann does not know.
(b) A well that is not capped.
(c) Burden Creek.
(d) An underground spring.

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

5. What does Ann decide she should do?
(a) Live in the cave.
(b) Cook better meals since there was another person to feed.
(c) Live in the tent.
(d) Bring Faro in the house.

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

7. What is Loomis doing when Ann returns home?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Cutting firewood.
(c) Checking the radiation levels of the Creek.
(d) Writing out instructions for a windmill.

8. What was John Loomis' occupation?
(a) Reporter.
(b) Physician.
(c) Chemist.
(d) Physicist.

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

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

11. Of what does Loomis say Ann's family probably died?
(a) Mob violence.
(b) Nerve gas.
(c) Radiation poisoning.
(d) Cholera.

12. What intrigues the man as he is making breakfast?
(a) Smoke coming from across the valley.
(b) The sounds of a chicken and cow.
(c) The sound of a dog barking.
(d) The sound of a squirrel chattering.

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

14. For what is Loomis searching?
(a) His wife.
(b) His parents.
(c) Survivors.
(d) His young son and daughter.

15. Why doesn't Ann use the tractor?
(a) She does not know how to get it running.
(b) She needs gas.
(c) It has flat tires.
(d) It is too big for the size of garden she is making.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ann take the cows and young bull?

2. With what information does the book open in the first sentence?

3. About what was Ann correct, much to Loomis' dismay?

4. What does the man do at the pond?

5. What does Ann hope?

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