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

2. What does Ann see when she goes and looks out of the boundaries of her valley?
(a) Lots of animals but no people.
(b) A valley about 40 miles away that has signs of life.
(c) Smoke in three different directions.
(d) Everything is dead.

3. How does Ann know what she states in the opening sentence?
(a) Someone has been shooting a rifle.
(b) The dog herds the cows home who kick at Ann.
(c) They heard the news on the radio.
(d) She sees smoke.

4. Where has Ann been on the morning of the opening of the book?
(a) Church.
(b) School.
(c) The doctor's office.
(d) In the hayloft.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the man afraid?

2. What is Loomis doing when Ann returns home?

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

4. Whom does the man feed?

5. What did Loomis' boss invent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain why Ann is alone in the valley.

5. 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?

6. Why does Ann bring Loomis into her home?

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

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

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

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

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