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Earth Abides Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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 natural disaster occurs in Year Twenty?
(a) A landslide.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A fire.
(d) A flood.

2. What is the name of the city where Ish ends his trip to the east?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Pittsburgh.

3. In Year Nine, (The Year of the Deaths) what causes almost everyone to
 become ill?
(a) A rat infestation.
(b) Contaminated water.
(c) Rotten food.
(d) A visitor.

4. What does Em say Ish can do to help her with childbirth?
(a) Read books about it.
(b) Find medicine.
(c) Provide hot water and clean sheets.
(d) Stay away.

5. How does Em demonstrate to Ish that children are necessary?
(a) She digs the roots out of a rose bush.
(b) She shows him how hard it is to work the garden alone.
(c) She lights a match and blows it out.
(d) She shows him old pictures of her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Ish is alone in his house and pondering civilization, what does he decide he will never be?

2. While driving home from Black Creek, what does Ish see on the side of the road?

3. What event affects the house of Ish's neighbor that Ish refuses to fix?

4. During the Quick Years, one of Ish and Em's earliest children dies. What do the adults think is the cause?

5. Why is Ish worried about the couple he stays with in the eastern city?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the group wouldn't allow Evie to have children?

2. What did Ezra do to test Charlie about his vest?

3. What event at the end of Chapter 5 both frightens and saddens Ish?

4. What trick do the children play every year at New Years?

5. How is it significant that Ish has not passed on the tradition of carving the year into the rock? What effect may this have later?

6. Has Ish lived a happier life in spite of, or because of, the disaster?

7. Are the other Tribe members as dedicated to education as Ish is? Why or why not?

8. What was different about the bodies that Ish saw in the dry, Arizona town?

9. When visiting the library, what does Joey ask Ish about restoring? What does he see that causes him to ask the question?

10. Why do Ish's feelings about the execution seem to be very different than the feelings of the others?

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