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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Ann decide to hide from a visitor?
(a) She decides there are worse things than being alone.
(b) She does not want to scare the person.
(c) She wants to surprise them.
(d) She has no decent clothes.

4. What does Ann decide to plant?
(a) Corn and wheat.
(b) Corn and beans.
(c) Wheat and beans.
(d) Cabbage and corn.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man notice in Burden Creek?

3. What does Ann decide she will do after cooking breakfast?

4. Where is Loomis from?

5. What does the man set up in the front yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the man there?

2. How does Loomis manage to survive on his long journey walking from New York?

3. How does the man discover his terrible error about the Creek and what does he do?

4. Why is Mr. Loomis at Burden Creek when Ann returns from picking greens, and how does he think the Creek can be used?

5. Why doesn't Ann think the arriving stranger is in a car and what does she think about what he is bringing?

6. What does Ann worry about when she discovers that Faro has returned?

7. What does Loomis say he was developing before the war?

8. Why is the valley special?

9. What happens that convinces Ann that the man knows nothing about farm life and what is her response?

10. Why concerns Ann about the approaching stranger?

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