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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 does Roy shout in his father's ear?
(a) Left, right, left, right. Halt.
(b) What is that coming through the door.
(c) Buck, your time has come.
(d) The aliens are coming.

2. What does Roy put under the car to simulate catastrophe?
(a) Kitchen utensils.
(b) Books.
(c) Plates.
(d) Milk bottles.

3. Who wrote the letter Thurber quotes from in this section?
(a) Herman.
(b) His mother.
(c) Aunt Edith.
(d) His grandfather.

4. What item of his mother's clothes does Thurber put on before he speaks to the police?
(a) Her bra.
(b) Her dressing gown.
(c) Her blouse.
(d) Her sweater.

5. What do the family use to knock the grandfather unconscious?
(a) A brick.
(b) A rock.
(c) An ironing board.
(d) An axe handle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes up Father at 10.30 pm?

2. Why does the Victrola annoy father?

3. Who dresses up as Zenas in this section?

4. Why do people take time to start their cars as they try to escape?

5. What does Thurber say lasts for two hours?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Grandmother and Mother fear about electricity?

2. How does Thurber reassure Briggs?

3. What happens inside the movie theater?

4. How did the REO meet its end?

5. How does Grandfather react when the police break into his room?

6. How does Roy scare his father?

7. What does Thurber say about earthquakes in this chapter?

8. How does Thurber react when he hears the ghost?

9. How did the rumor that the dam had broken start?

10. What does Aunt write that she observed from the flood?

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