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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of crops are growing in the fields of the first farm where Lisa stops?

2. What were the meetings that Lisa attended on Mondays before the plague?

3. What is the focus of Jill's life?

4. How old is Craig?

5. What kind of notebook does Lisa study before her meeting with the neighborhood children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the things Lisa takes from the house she breaks into?

2. Briefly tell what the man wrote to his son John in the letter Lisa found on the writing desk.

3. What kind of training do the children dislike most and who is teaching them about this?

4. What does Lisa discover when she returns to the house with the second load of supplies from the farm?

5. Describe what the children do during their holiday?

6. What kind of life does Craig wish for and what is Lisa's response?

7. What does Lisa start to say about the children who didn't come out to fight off the gang, why does she change her mind and why does she let the children tell the story any way they choose?

8. What are some of the suggestions the other children have as an alternative to forming a militia?

9. What are the situations Lisa finds at Jill's house and at Craig's house?

10. What does Lisa find in her closet that reminds her of her old life, and how does she feel when she finds it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Lisa move the children to the high school? How does she maintain control? How does she continue to maintain control even after hundreds of children join them?

Essay Topic 2

Describe at least three situations in which Lisa doubts herself or her decisions. How are the three different? How are they the same? What does Lisa learn from each?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Lisa believe that the city is better than the farm? Why does Craig believe the farm is better than the city? Which is correct?

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