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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Beach of Bones.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What number does Rod draw, for entering the gate to the unknown planet?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. Rod is informed that the exit gate from his final exam will be where?
(a) As much as twenty kilometers in the direction of sunset.
(b) As much as ten kilometers in the direction of sunset.
(c) As much as thirty kilometers in the direction of sunrise.
(d) As much as twenty kilometers in the direction of sunrise.

3. What is wrong with Rod and Jack's attempts to find quality human partners according to Jimmy in Chapter 7?
(a) Other survivors might be girls.
(b) Other survivors would only steal their supplies.
(c) The skilled survivors will hear them coming and stay out of sight.
(d) There are no other survivors.

4. When Rod and Roy reach the downstream end of the river on their expedition, what do they find?
(a) A series of cave dwellings and a desert.
(b) A series of cave dwellings and an ocean.
(c) A dead sea and a beach of bleached bones.
(d) A desert and a beach of bleached bones.

5. When Rod leaves the settlement with Roy to seek out a better location, who is appointed city manager in his place?
(a) Cliff.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Arthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Rod and Jack break the fever of the person they discovered in a tree in Chapter 6?

2. After Rod is hit over the head and robbed in Chapter 3, what items does he have left?

3. Which resident of the colony is the first to become pregnant?

4. When Rod and Roy finally return to the settlement at the end of Chapter 11, who is the first person to spot them?

5. How is the first part of Chapter 11 different from the rest of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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