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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David learns Petra can communicate with whom?
(a) People who live in the Badlands.
(b) People who live far away to the southwest.
(c) Animals.
(d) Non-telepathic people.

2. Axel warns David that the bad season will make people look for what?
(a) A scapegoat.
(b) A mutant.
(c) Rogue sailors.
(d) Fringes people.

3. Axel tells David that praying to take away his ability is what?
(a) Not enough.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Something he thinks will work.
(d) The best course of action.

4. According to Michael, why are the authorities particularly determined to capture the runaways, instead of just letting them escape into the Fringes?
(a) Because the authorities want to torture them.
(b) Because the authorities want to learn how to become telepathic themselves.
(c) Because the authorities are upset there was no sign the telepathics were different.
(d) Because the authorities want to send them overseas.

5. What makes the great-horses gallop out of control as the runaways near the forest?
(a) A gunshot whistles past them.
(b) A wild cat attacks them.
(c) Petra begin to scream.
(d) A man jumps out of the bushes.

6. Who are the telepathic sisters David communicates with?
(a) Anne and Sally.
(b) Katherine and Rachel.
(c) Anne and Rachel.
(d) Sally and Katherine.

7. A newborn is not formally announced until who approves the baby?
(a) The magistrate.
(b) The local tax collector.
(c) The inspector.
(d) The head of the patrol.

8. When Katherine transmits to the group, how does David describe her thoughts?
(a) As a message of love.
(b) As a cry of agony.
(c) As a message she was safe.
(d) As a warning to flee.

9. What does the group of telepathics fear regarding Katherine?
(a) They fear she has been jailed.
(b) They fear she is refusing to speak to them.
(c) They fear she has died.
(d) They fear she has been abandoned in the Badlands.

10. As the runaways move deeper into Wild Country, what decision are David and Rosalind unable to make without Michael’s guidance?
(a) Whether or not to change direction.
(b) Whether or not to fight the search party.
(c) Whether or not to get rid of the great-horses.
(d) Whether or not to turn back.

11. Who does Anne decide to marry?
(a) The inspector’s son.
(b) Walter Brent.
(c) Alan Ervin.
(d) Angus Morton.

12. How do Sally and Katherine act after being taken?
(a) Sad and mournful.
(b) Innocent and bewildered.
(c) Excited and happy.
(d) Angry and belligerent.

13. Who telepathically emits an emergency beacon at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Petra.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Anne.
(d) Rosalind.

14. According to Axel, what is the cause of the bad season?
(a) People memorizing Nicholson’s Repentances.
(b) A bad winter with winds from the southwest.
(c) Slackness regarding Purity standards.
(d) The Badlands spreading.

15. Who is Jerome Skinner?
(a) A man searching for an escaped mutant.
(b) A man who lives near the woods and sees Sally and Katherine running.
(c) A traveler coming from Newf.
(d) A man fleeing Waknuk for having a deviation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Old Jacob tells David that the only way to cleanse deviations, even those in people, is to do what?

2. How do the telepathics react to news of Anne’s plan to marry?

3. According to Petra, what can everyone do in Sealand?

4. When Rachel finally sees Anne, what does she find?

5. If the telepathics are caught, Michael says that it would be kinder to kill Petra than to let what happen to her?

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