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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. From where is the pond fed?
(a) Burden Creek.
(b) Ann does not know.
(c) An underground spring.
(d) A well that is not capped.

2. What had the team just completed before the war?
(a) A suit of the polymer.
(b) A suit of the special metal.
(c) A suit made of a silk like material that the amoeba creates.
(d) A suit made of kevlar.

3. About what does Ann tell Loomis?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her secret diary.
(c) Her cellar with lots of canned goods.
(d) Her radio that is still working.

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

5. What did Ann and her brother realize about Burden Creek?
(a) It is good water.
(b) It is poisoned.
(c) It's flow changed.
(d) It could be use to generate electricity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What set of reading material does Ann give Loomis?

2. What does Ann do later in the day without Loomis?

3. What does Ann observe as she sits in her cave at night?

4. What was John Loomis' occupation?

5. What is Loomis' main health problem at this time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ann decide to do as the stranger draws closer?

3. What does Ann hear Loomis saying in his dreams and what does Ann think about what she hears?

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

5. How does Ann get the tractor running and what planting decision does she make?

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

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

8. Why concerns Ann about the approaching stranger?

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

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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