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

2. Early in Chapter 14, Caroline complains about whose lack of sanitation?
(a) Bruce and his wife.
(b) Bob and Carmen.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Cliff.

3. What is the full name of Grant, as shown on the memorial slab in the village square?
(a) Ulysses S. Cowper.
(b) Ulysses Grant Cowper.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Grant S. Cowper.

4. The historian is chosen based on what criteria?
(a) He has the best writing skills.
(b) He is the only one who has writing paper.
(c) She is the only one who has writing paper.
(d) She has the best writing skills.

5. According to Caroline's inventory, how many fishhooks does the settlement possess?
(a) Fifty-seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seventy-one.
(d) Ninety-one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bob order Rod to avoid heavy work and sleep on his stomach, after Rod's argument with Jock in Chapter 8?

2. The title of Chapter 12 is a quote from which character?

3. Why does Rod initially turn down the position offered to him by Grant in Chapter 10?

4. Why does Rod insist, at the end of Chapter 13, that the students should stay put rather than move their settlement?

5. In Chapter 8, what is Grant's theory as to why Jock would not listen to Rod?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Grant use the incident between Rod and Jock in Chapter 8 to overthrow Rod from his leadership position?

2. What vote do the students make while Rod is recovering from the dopey joe attack?

3. Who stands up for Bob and Carmen during their wedding ceremony?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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