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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ann worry about concerning the tomatoes?
(a) They need special fertilizer.
(b) The beetles are eating a lot of them.
(c) They are stunted and she wonders if it's radiation.
(d) How to get them canned when she is not living at the house.

2. What does Loomis tell Ann he heard while delirious?
(a) Her playing the piano.
(b) An owl hooting.
(c) Whispers.
(d) Gunshots.

3. Why is Loomis angry when he wakes?
(a) He cannot find Ann.
(b) He thinks she is making too much noise.
(c) He has bad dreams.
(d) He thinks she is talking about his to someone.

4. What does Ann notice on her way down to the farm on the new route?
(a) The crabapple tree is heavy with apples.
(b) Deer tracks.
(c) Signs of squirrels and rabbits.
(d) A bird's nest full of chicks.

5. About what does Mr. Loomis yell at Ann?
(a) For her mentioning Edward.
(b) For not planting sooner.
(c) For bringing the stove to the kitchen by herself.
(d) For leaving him when he was unconscious to plow.

6. Where does Ann move?
(a) To the Klein's house.
(b) To the attic bedroom.
(c) To her cave.
(d) No where.

7. What does Ann find when she goes to pray?
(a) Two baby owls.
(b) A baby crow.
(c) A baby possum.
(d) Three kittens.

8. Why does Ann play the piano that evening?
(a) It makes her feel more hopeful.
(b) In the hopes it will soothe Mr. Loomis.
(c) She is bored.
(d) She does not want to lose the skill she has.

9. What does Ann do in response to her belief about Loomis and Edward?
(a) Adopts a wait and see attitude.
(b) Goes through the rest of Loomis' belongings.
(c) Asks Loomis.
(d) Goes to the church to pray.

10. What does Loomis do at the store that causes Ann to worry?
(a) Breaks several windows.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Wrecks the front room.
(d) Puts locks on the doors.

11. What is Loomis doing with his gun when Ann returns?
(a) Trying to stick the barrel end in his mouth.
(b) Cleaning it.
(c) Shooting it at the top of the house.
(d) Smashing articles in the house with it.

12. What is Mr. Loomis able to do on the fourth day after he is conscious?
(a) Feed himself.
(b) Go outside and shuck peas.
(c) Go outside to feed the chickens.
(d) Get out of bed.

13. Where does Ann go the next morning after Loomis was delirious?
(a) To sleep.
(b) Back to church.
(c) To the garden to keep busy and not worry.
(d) To the store.

14. How does Loomis get supplies while Ann is hiding out before he shot her?
(a) He has been going to the store himself.
(b) She had been bringing them and put them on the porch for him.
(c) He has met her halfway to the store.
(d) He hasn't.

15. What does Mr. Loomis call the table set for dinner by his bedside?
(a) A holiday.
(b) Too much work for Ann to have done.
(c) A travesty.
(d) A miracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Loomis do with Faro?

2. What is Mr. Loomis designing as he recovers?

3. What does Ann realize about why Loomis shoots her?

4. Why hasn't Ann written in her journal for quite some time?

5. What does Loomis do with Faro?

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