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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. Sabina says that a few years ago, everyone got through what event, "by the skin of our teeth"?
(a) The Depression.
(b) The Earthquake.
(c) The Ice Age.
(d) The War.

2. How many old women are among the crowd of refugees at the Antrobus'?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Nine.

3. A society proclaiming the end of the world postponed it because they saw what?
(a) The sunrise.
(b) The clouds.
(c) The light.
(d) The theater.

4. While Mr. Antrobus drills Henry in the times tables, what does he order Mrs. Antrobus to teach Gladys?
(a) The first verses of the Illiad.
(b) The first verses of some poetry.
(c) The first verses of "Amazing Grace."
(d) The first verses of the Bible.

5. Mr. Antrobus, when he is elected president of the international society of mammals, gives a speech celebrating the extinction of what?
(a) The whale.
(b) The mammoth.
(c) The dinosaur.
(d) The dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Antrobus was elected president of the international society of mammals. What division?

2. Mrs. Antrobus urges her fellow human beings to live by what slogan?

3. Sabina doesn't want to go outside to borrow some fire because she says it is too what?

4. When Mr. Antrobus needs some relaxation he says that a man can only what?

5. When Mrs. Antrobus allows the Telegraph Boy into the house, she asks him if he has something to do. What is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gladys tell Mr. Antrobus before running away from Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus?

2. What does Mr. Antrobus tell Mrs. Antrobus his plan is to save them from the cold?

3. Who are "people of straw" according to Sabina?

4. What is Mrs. Antrobus' reaction when Mr. Antrobus tells her that he is leaving her?

5. Why does Sabina not want to go borrow some fire?

6. What does Mrs. Antrobus say will make her happy at the convention?

7. What is in the message Mrs. Antrobus puts in the bottle?

8. Why does Mrs. Antrobus tell Henry to put down the stone he is carrying?

9. What does Mr. Antrobus say that he used to imagine during the war?

10. What do the lines of the philosophers, played by the stand-ins, concern?

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