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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. The title of Chapter 12 is a quote from which character?
(a) Roy.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Jack.
(d) Grant.

2. In Chapter 8 Arthur Nielson proposes that the group's new leader should be chosen by what principle, rather than by popular vote?
(a) Rigorous scientific criteria.
(b) The student from the wealthiest family should lead.
(c) A lottery.
(d) The eldest student should lead.

3. In Chapter 10, what position does Grant ask Rod to assume after Rod insists that changes must be made?
(a) Historian.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Assistant administrator.
(d) Chief of police.

4. What does Jimmy give to Bob and Carmen as a wedding present?
(a) Two needles and some thread.
(b) A deck of cards.
(c) A stew pan.
(d) A water skin.

5. After agreeing to cooperate with Grant in Chapter 10, Rod asks to lead a search party to find what?
(a) A more defensible place to move the colony.
(b) Ore.
(c) A watering hole.
(d) A better salt lick.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Caroline's inventory, how many fishhooks does the settlement possess?

2. At the end of Chapter 10, what two students plan to marry according to Grant?

3. What sort of writing does the historian use for taking notes, that Grant cannot read?

4. During the upheaval following a student's demand for a constitution at the evening meeting in Chapter 10, what does Rod ask Jimmy to do?

5. Which member of the settlement is an aspiring medical student?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under Grant's leadership, how frequently are town meetings held?

2. Why does Rod banish Jock and his friends, four older boys, from the colony?

3. Why don't students want to relocate to the caves Rod and Roy discovered?

4. What do Grant and Rod build in an attempt to protect their camp from the stampeding animals?

5. Who finally convinces Rod to return home to Earth?

6. At the end of the novel, what is Rod doing?

7. The first part of Chapter 11 is told from whose point of view?

8. What demands does Rod make of Grant in Chapter 10, before agreeing to serve as his city manager?

9. What do Rod and Roy discover, as far downstream as they can go?

10. Where does Rod think the students should move their colony?

(see the answer keys)

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