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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. What does Randy decide to tell Alice and Florence?

2. How many supermarket carts does Randy fill?

3. Why does Randy have to talk to Edgar?

4. What does Admiral Hazzard have for news?

5. Where do Syrian tanks go near the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Randy go after he leaves the grocery store and what does he do?

2. Who's the second person to stop in at Randy's house after he returned from town?

3. Who barges in on Randy after he returns home from his errands in town and what does she say?

4. What does Randy hear on the radio while driving to Orlando?

5. What happens in the "Hole" when General Hawker returns and talks with Mark?

6. What does Bill McGovern say to Randy about his warning from Mark?

7. Who are the Bragg brothers and what are they both doing at the beginning of the book?

8. Why is Alice late meeting Florence and what ultimately happened?

9. How does Florence know Randy and what does she think of him in the beginning of the book?

10. Where did Randy go after he left the bank and what did he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edgar Quisenberry is in denial, believing he has enough cash and the bank enough staying power to make it through. Pride and arrogance stop him from limiting withdrawals as his teller suggests.

1. Why do you think someone would withdraw into a delusion when afraid?

2. Describe a time when you or someone you know denied a situation because of fear.

3. Do you think if you had been in the situation when the bombs dropped you might go into denial? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Randy returns with a fleet of boats full of salt and blue crab to a dining table heaped with delicious roast armadillo, and a kitchen sink with four large black bass. Three crying women convince him women need a man around.

1. Do you think that women were viewed differently at the time this book was published? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think Peyton is being treated fairly by her family and especially her brother? Why or why not?

3. If you were a child in this book would you rather be Peyton or Ben? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Civilization retreats a hundred years in Fort Repose on The Day.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What do you think would happen in the United States in the present if all electrical power was permanently lost?

3. Do you think the loss of government and electrical power would cause some people to act better and some to behave worse than normal? Why or why not?

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