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

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

3. How many people has Loomis met on his journey?
(a) Several thousand.
(b) Less than a dozen.
(c) None besides Ann.
(d) Two others besides Ann.

4. After four days, what does Loomis' temperature mean?
(a) He will get sicker, but will most likely survive.
(b) He has the worse form of radiation.
(c) He is still in the interim period.
(d) He is pretty much cured.

5. What is Ann's first impulse when the man yells for anyone?
(a) To shoot him.
(b) To send Faro down to him.
(c) To answer him.
(d) To get up to the cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since it is June, what is urgent that Ann do?

2. Who returns to the valley?

3. What does Loomis think the Creek water could do?

4. Why doesn't Ann use the tractor?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the man there?

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

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

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

5. Who is the stranger and what was his job before the war?

6. What is the situation in the valley about the water supply?

7. Why concerns Ann about the approaching stranger?

8. What does Ann daydream about as she is picking salad greens?

9. What does the man say possibly happened to Ann's family?

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

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