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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. Where is Loomis from?
(a) Boston.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) North Platte.
(d) Ithaca.

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

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

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

5. What is another thing the visitor does soon after examining the green leaves of a tree?
(a) He plants an American flag in the soil by the tree.
(b) He checks the tree and area with a Geiger counter.
(c) He shoots his rifle into the air.
(d) He climbs the tree to reach the fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Loomis get there from where he started?

2. About how far is Claypole Ridge?

3. What does the man do at Burden Creek?

4. Why doesn't Loomis go with Ann?

5. What is Loomis doing when Ann returns home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Loomis say about his activities the night the war breaks out?

5. How does Ann become inspired to make a salad?

6. Explain why Ann's parents left her home when they left to discover the effects of the war?

7. How does Ann describe the newly-arrived stranger?

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

9. Explain why Ann is alone in the valley.

10. What does the approaching stranger do when he gets halfway across the flat part of the hill overlooking the green valley of Ann's home?

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