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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Loomis from?
(a) North Platte.
(b) Boston.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Ithaca.

2. About what does Ann worry?
(a) The man will eat all the chickens and there will be none left to reproduce.
(b) The man will kill one of the cows.
(c) She should have warned the man about Burden Creek.
(d) The man will leave right away.

3. What does Ann hope?
(a) The calf will keep the cow from getting uncomfortable with too much milk.
(b) Faro will not show up.
(c) The cows will be too skittish to get near the man.
(d) The Creek is no longer radioactive.

4. With what information does the book open in the first sentence?
(a) Ann and her family are alone in the valley.
(b) Someone is coming.
(c) The cows are acting strangely.
(d) There was a nuclear holocaust.

5. How does Ann feel about the man being there as she gets ready to sleep that night?
(a) Fearful but companionable.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Angry.
(d) Terrified.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the man afraid?

2. What happens when Ann asks him about the person in question 63?

3. After four days, what does Loomis' temperature mean?

4. In what month does the book open?

5. What does the man notice in Burden Creek?

(see the answer key)

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