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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. Who is selected to lead the group meeting in Chapter 8, during which a leader will be elected?
(a) Roy.
(b) Rod.
(c) Grant.
(d) Jimmy.

2. In Chapter 10 when Peewee, the youngest in the settlement, uses foul language, what does Rod threaten to do?
(a) Wash his mouth out with sand since they have no soap.
(b) Banish him from the settlement.
(c) Assign him to the sanitation committee.
(d) Assign him extra kitchen duties.

3. In Chapter 8, why does Rod suggest building a stone wall?
(a) To dam up the river.
(b) To protect their camp from strong winds.
(c) To protect their camp from predators.
(d) To conceal their camp from other survival students.

4. How is Jack injured early in Chapter 8?
(a) She falls off of a small ledge.
(b) She is kicked in the ribs by a wounded buck.
(c) She is stabbed by an angry student.
(d) She is bitten by a lion-type creature.

5. Which member of the settlement is an aspiring medical student?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Bob.
(c) Rod.
(d) Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 13 what do Grant and Roy build to try and save their settlement during the catastrophic event?

3. In Chapter 12 why are many students, including Grant, less than enthusiastic about moving to the caves Rod and Roy have discovered?

4. Who protests and tries to turn down the job when nominated to be the group's first mayor in Chapter 8?

5. After agreeing to cooperate with Grant in Chapter 10, Rod asks to lead a search party to find what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who becomes the first elected mayor of the student settlement in Chapter 8?

2. How do Rod and Caroline clash the first time they try to hunt together?

3. What happens to Grant during the dopey joes' aggressive period?

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

5. When rescuers arrive, who is the only student who refuses to return home?

6. A strange migration of what creatures threatens the students' settlement?

7. In Chapter 10, why is Caroline appointed historian for the settlement?

8. Why, according to Caroline, is Carmen unable to relocate to a new place?

9. What does Deacon Matson finally define as a stobor?

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

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