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

2. Since it is June, what is urgent that Ann do?
(a) Let the rooster have access to the chickens.
(b) Can some of her garden asap.
(c) Get the garden going.
(d) Get the cow pregnant again.

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

4. What does Ann think about in a flashback to right after the war?
(a) Her family deciding to go out and check things again.
(b) Her father feeling ill and then dying.
(c) See a terrible flash of light and hearing the ground shake.
(d) The radio going dead.

5. What does Ann decide she should do?
(a) Live in the cave.
(b) Live in the tent.
(c) Cook better meals since there was another person to feed.
(d) Bring Faro in the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dr. Kylmer?

2. What does Ann play for Mr. Loomis?

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

4. Who goes with Ann to gather the greens?

5. What is Loomis doing when Ann returns home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why concerns Ann about the approaching stranger?

2. Why does Ann decide to go down to the farm yard and what does she discover?

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

4. Why does Ann think someone is coming to her valley?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What does the man do with his Geiger counter and then what terrible error does he make?

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