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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 & 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellie say has suffered the worst damage during the war?
(a) The damage to the factories.
(b) The damage to the ecosystem.
(c) The damage to the farms.
(d) The damage inside each of the people.

2. What does Ellie imagine is crawling on her scalp when she's under the piles of felt in the back of the truck?
(a) Lice.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Lizards.
(d) Scorpions.

3. Why does Ellie say they left the radio at Grandma's house in the opening pages of chapter sixteen?
(a) They want Kevin to use it while they are away.
(b) They are afraid it will rain and the radio will get wet.
(c) The radio is too heavy for them to carry.
(d) They can't risk the kids getting it.

4. What is the whistle the members of Ellie's group uses for a signal?
(a) Four notes, high then low.
(b) The opening of Braham's Lullaby.
(c) Five notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
(d) The sound of a whipporwill.

5. What is Kevin's reaction when Ellie tells him they're at the Wirrawee Airfield?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He says it's Ellie's fault.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He says they can destroy it..

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the item the kids take from Homer?

2. Where does Ellie say she'd learned the most about life?

3. What does Ellie assume they'll do when they arrive in Stratton?

4. What does Ellie do to distract the men who seem about to kill Lee?

5. How many soldiers are in the group that runs past Ellie and the others as they are hiding?

(see the answer key)

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