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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ann's first impulse when the man yells for anyone?
(a) To shoot him.
(b) To answer him.
(c) To send Faro down to him.
(d) To get up to the cave.

2. In addition to the suit, what does Loomis' group create that enables Loomis to survive a search for survivors?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A filter to make water usuable.
(c) An invisible dome to keep fallout off his cart and supplies.
(d) A fillter to cleanse water of radiation.

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

4. What does Loomis say about the night the bombs fall?
(a) He is alone in the lab.
(b) He was on his way to pick up his children.
(c) He and seven others were in the lab when the bombs fell.
(d) He and his wife were talking on the phone when it goes dead.

5. What did Ann and her brother realize about Burden Creek?
(a) It is poisoned.
(b) It could be use to generate electricity.
(c) It's flow changed.
(d) It is good water.

6. What had the team just completed before the war?
(a) A suit made of a silk like material that the amoeba creates.
(b) A suit made of kevlar.
(c) A suit of the polymer.
(d) A suit of the special metal.

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

8. From where is the pond fed?
(a) Ann does not know.
(b) A well that is not capped.
(c) An underground spring.
(d) Burden Creek.

9. What intrigues the man as he is making breakfast?
(a) The sound of a dog barking.
(b) The sounds of a chicken and cow.
(c) The sound of a squirrel chattering.
(d) Smoke coming from across the valley.

10. What does Ann observe as she sits in her cave at night?
(a) There might be more than one visitor.
(b) The visitor had built a fire in the yard.
(c) The person seems young.
(d) The cows had returned to the barn.

11. What does Ann do later in the day without Loomis?
(a) Fish.
(b) Row on the pond.
(c) Walk to the store.
(d) Visit the church.

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

13. What did Loomis' boss invent?
(a) An amoeba.
(b) A new kind of metal.
(c) A new kind of Geiger counter.
(d) A polymer.

14. In what month does the book open?
(a) May.
(b) June.
(c) January.
(d) November.

15. What was John Loomis' occupation?
(a) Chemist.
(b) Physicist.
(c) Reporter.
(d) Physician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ann decide to do about safety?

2. What does the man set up in the front yard?

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

4. What does Loomis' boss' invention do?

5. What did the man lay on top of his cart?

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