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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 the narrator of Part XII: “Because of Kistner” say is his/her “first clear memory” in the opening of the chapter?
(a) “Shooting.”
(b) “Running.”
(c) “Crying.”
(d) “Screaming.”

2. Cassie says to Evan in Part IX: “A Flower to the Rain,” Chapter 68, “1st Wave: lights out. 2nd Wave: surf’s up. 3rd Wave: pestilence. 4th Wave:” what?
(a) “Humans.”
(b) “Silencer.”
(c) “Eradication.”
(d) “Rains.”

3. Where does Evan say he found the rifle in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill,” Chapter 55?
(a) In a gas station.
(b) On the battlefield.
(c) In a church.
(d) By the highway.

4. Of humankind, the narrator says in Part XIII: “The Black Hole,” Chapter 87, “You’re beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are” whom?
(a) “Picasso.”
(b) “Aristotle.”
(c) “Michelangelo.”
(d) “Leonardo da Vinci.”

5. Who is the person that the narrator hears screaming during the explosions in Part XII: “Because of Kistner”?
(a) Himself.
(b) Cassie.
(c) Evan.
(d) Colonel Vosch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term do the soldiers use to refer to humans that are infected in Part VIII: “The Spirit of Vengeance”?

2. The three people that Cassie finds that have been shot by Evan in Part IX: “A Flower to the Rain,” Chapter 69 are described as no older than what age?

3. Who is sitting next to Zombie when he awakens in the hospital at Camp Haven in Part VIII: “The Spirit of Vengeance”?

4. What kind of vehicle do Cassie and the others escape in, in Part XIII: “The Black Hole,” Chapter 90?

5. What color do the infected humans supposedly glow through the special eyewear that Zombie’s squad wears in Part VIII: “The Spirit of Vengeance”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cassie go about infiltrating Camp Haven in Part IX: “A Flower to the Rain”?

2. What does Cassie promise herself as she makes her way toward Sammy in Part XI: “The Infinite Sea”?

3. How does the relationship between Evan and Cassie progress in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill”?

4. What choice is Cassie given in order to save Sammy in Part XIII: “The Black Hole”?

5. What aspect of Evan’s physicality causes Cassie to doubt his intentions in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill”?

6. How does Cassie progress in making her way into the compound in Part XI: “The Infinite Sea”?

7. Who narrates Part X: “A Thousand Ways”? What is the setting that opens this section of the novel?

8. How is Squad 53’s arrival on the battlefield described in Part VIII: “The Spirit of Vengeance”?

9. How do the protagonists of the novel escape in the ending of Part XIII: “The Black Hole”?

10. Where does Evan go every evening in Part VII: “The Heart to Kill”? Why?

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