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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does her parents say they are going first in their explorations?
(a) To the military base.
(b) To the Mennonites.
(c) To the Quaker settlement.
(d) To the Amish.

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

3. How does Ann spend much of the next day?
(a) Plowing fields with the tractor.
(b) Planting greens.
(c) Gathering the chickens.
(d) Bringing the cows to the front pasture.

4. What does the visitor do when he first arrives over a hill and sees the green valley?
(a) He sobs hysterically.
(b) He runs forward waving his arms.
(c) He stands and stares for a few minutes.
(d) He drops to his knees and prays.

5. What inspires Ann to make a salad?
(a) A dream about her mother.
(b) A dream about a rabbit.
(c) Seeing an add in a magazine.
(d) Loomis talks about his salad garden.

6. For what is Loomis searching?
(a) His parents.
(b) His wife.
(c) His young son and daughter.
(d) Survivors.

7. For what does Ann really long?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Fresh salad and greens.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Her brother.

8. What does Ann play for Mr. Loomis?
(a) The piano.
(b) Her clarinet.
(c) Her trumpet.
(d) The guitar.

9. What does Ann do to the chickens before hiding out?
(a) Puts them in small wire cages and takes them to the cave.
(b) Kills them.
(c) Chases them out of their fenced in area.
(d) Nothing.

10. What would Ann like to have in a church if she ever got married?
(a) Wild flowers.
(b) Apple blossoms.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Water lilies.

11. What bothers Ann about the man and her chickens?
(a) He eats some of her eggs.
(b) He can hear them.
(c) He kills one of them.
(d) He captures them and puts them in his cart.

12. What is the man wearing who arrives in Ann's sight?
(a) A business suit.
(b) A strange plastic suit.
(c) A military uniform.
(d) Coveralls.

13. When Ann's father returns from scouting the first time he went out, what does he report finding?
(a) Lots of dead bodies.
(b) Some areas still have a few people.
(c) Only a few have died around a 50 mile radius of their place.
(d) He never returned from his scouting expedition.

14. What does Ann think Faro will do?
(a) Bite the man.
(b) Run away again since there is a stranger at the house.
(c) Become friends with the man.
(d) Lead the man to her location.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Ann go down to the farm yard with her gun?

3. What seems to puzzle the man after he goes inside Ann's home?

4. Where does Ann take the cows and young bull?

5. How does Ann feel about the man being there as she gets ready to sleep that night?

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