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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. How old was Ben’s sister Sissy when she was abducted and Ben was unable to save her?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

2. Cassie is sitting next to whom on the cot when the drone reappears in Cassie’s flashback in Part I: “The Last Historian,” Chapter 15?
(a) Oompa.
(b) Crisco.
(c) Hutchfield.
(d) Ringer.

3. Who is the unofficial leader at the camp where Cassie is staying in the flashback in Part I: “The Last Historian,” Chapter 14?
(a) Hutchfield.
(b) Ringer.
(c) Crisco.
(d) Oompa.

4. Cassie says in Part I: “The Last Historian” that she was named after what?
(a) A Hindu goddess.
(b) A constellation.
(c) A river in Greece.
(d) A hotel in Naples.

5. In the narrator’s metaphor for war in Part III: “Silencer,” what does he refer to as “the battlefield”?
(a) “The Earth.”
(b) “His reason.”
(c) “His heart.”
(d) “[Cassie’s] face.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Sammy tells the girl who’s sitting across from him on the bus in Part V: “The Winnowing,” Chapter 38 that his name is Sam, but that everyone calls him Sammy except for Cassie. What does Cassie call him?

2. What is the name of the medic who gives Sammy candy and juice in Part V: “The Winnowing,” Chapter 37?

3. What color is Evan’s eyes described as being in Part IV: “Mayfly”?

4. Cassie says in Part I: “The Last Historian,” Chapter 3, “The first rule of surviving the 4th Wave is” what?

5. Cassie is said to stand a little over what height in bare feet in Part III: “Silencer”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Cassie relate to Evan of her observations after the attack in Part IV: “Mayfly”?

2. What does Evan Walker reveal about his family in Part IV: “Mayfly,” Chapter 35?

3. How is the character of Ringer described in Part VI: “The Human Clay”?

4. Where is Cassie Sullivan when she awakens in Part IV: “Mayfly,” Chapter 33? How is the setting described?

5. What does the teddy bear that Cassie carries in the novel represent symbolically?

6. How do Sammy and Ben come to meet in Part VI: “The Human Clay”? By what name is Sammy called?

7. How are the members of Squad 53 described in Part VI: “The Human Clay”?

8. Who narrates Part IV: “Mayfly”? Where is the protagonist located in the opening of Part IV: “Mayfly,” Chapter 32?

9. What is the literary genre of The 5th Wave? Where does the novel open? How is the setting described?

10. What kinds of literary allusions are seen in Parts I through III of The 5th Wave?

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