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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ann move?

2. Where does Loomis search for Ann?

3. What does Ann do the morning after leaving the house during the night?

4. What does Ann discover when she goes to start the tractor?

5. How many bags of fertilizer does Ann estimate are at the store?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Mr. Loomis' illness progressed in Chapter 11, and what does he talk about while delirious?

2. How does Mr. Loomis express his anger and what does Ann do?

3. What happens to Mr. Loomis at the opening to Chapter 10?

4. Why does Ann think she can return to the fields to work and why does Loomis yell at her?

5. What does Ann finally piece together about Edward and Loomis?

6. How is Mr. Loomis using Faro?

7. Why does Mr. Loomis become angry and what does Ann decide to do?

8. What puzzles Ann when she is reading poetry to Mr. Loomis?

9. Why does Mr. Loomis use the tractor to go to the store?

10. What do Ann and Mr. Loomis argue about concerning the crops?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ann watches the progress of the stranger and begins to worry that it might be someone who means her harm. Ann decides to hide all evidence of her existence by burying her garden and releasing her animals, then climbing up to a cave in the hills over her valley. Discuss the following:

1. Does it seem likely a fifteen-year-old girl would retreat from what is likely the only other human being in her surroundings for miles?

2. If you were Ann, would you adopt the same procedure to observe the person from afar for awhile? Do you think it would occur to you to do this?

3. How likely is it that the approaching human would harm another human who may be his/her only way to interact with someone else?

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not?

5. What type of plot do you think Z for Zachariah is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. Do you think Ann is wise to leave the valley? Do you think the implication is that her dream of teaching children is prophetic and that she will find others? Why or why not?

2. Would you have chosen the same route as Ann, i.e., leaving the valley. Why or why not?

3. How well do you think Ann will survive journeying out into a dangerous world?

4. Do you think Mr. Loomis redeems himself by pointing Ann in a likely direction to begin her journey? Give an in depth response.

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