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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the crowds by the gates doing as women are admitted or turned away by the entrance guards in Chapter 27?
(a) Booing and hissing.
(b) Cat-calling to the women.
(c) Placing bets on who’s let in.
(d) Taking photographs.

2. When Penryn notices that the soldiers have their rifles aimed at about the height of their waists, she questions whether what animal might have killed the other soldiers in Chapter 21?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bear.
(c) A rabid fox.
(d) A mountain lion.

3. Penryn says in Chapter 25 that what highway is a main artery into San Francisco, and the location where Penryn first hears a working truck in the novel?
(a) Highway 45.
(b) Highway 66.
(c) Highway 78.
(d) Highway 280.

4. In Chapter 21, Penryn says, “Watching the soldiers leave is like watching the basement door close, shutting out the only light in the house and leaving me alone in the monster-filled darkness.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Quarto.
(b) Motif.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

5. Penryn describes a seven-foot blow up creature by the cubicles in the office building where she hides in Chapter 6. What is the creature?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A gorilla.
(d) A dinosaur.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Penryn in the novel?

2. Penryn says in Chapter 1 that her favorite boots used to be her favorites because she once got a compliment from whom about the look of the leather strips on the sides?

3. What is the “gang symbol” that is nailed to the front door of Penryn’s family’s condo building in Chapter 2?

4. What does Penryn describe as being in the foyer and a deterrent for others to enter the office building she’s hiding in with the wounded angel in Chapter 6?

5. Raffe says in Chapter 16 that Obadiah in the Bible was said to have done what?

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