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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann see when she goes and looks out of the boundaries of her valley?
(a) Smoke in three different directions.
(b) A valley about 40 miles away that has signs of life.
(c) Lots of animals but no people.
(d) Everything is dead.

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

3. What happens when Ann asks him about the person in question 63?
(a) He gets angry.
(b) He drops his glass of water.
(c) He says he does not want to talk about it.
(d) He starts sobbing.

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

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

6. Where does her parents say they are going first in their explorations?
(a) To the Amish.
(b) To the Quaker settlement.
(c) To the Mennonites.
(d) To the military base.

7. How does Ann feel about the man being there as she gets ready to sleep that night?
(a) Fearful but companionable.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Angry.
(d) Terrified.

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

9. What does Ann hope?
(a) The cows will be too skittish to get near the man.
(b) The Creek is no longer radioactive.
(c) Faro will not show up.
(d) The calf will keep the cow from getting uncomfortable with too much milk.

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

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

12. What does Loomis say about the night the bombs fall?
(a) He is alone in the lab.
(b) He and his wife were talking on the phone when it goes dead.
(c) He and seven others were in the lab when the bombs fell.
(d) He was on his way to pick up his children.

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

14. Why does Ann go down to the farm yard with her gun?
(a) To confront the man.
(b) To get Faro.
(c) To steal some eggs.
(d) To check on the man.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where has Ann been on the morning of the opening of the book?

3. Why does Ann decide to hide from a visitor?

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

5. Why does Ann begin recording the events of her day?

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