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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Loomis think the Creek water could do?
(a) Keep trespassers away.
(b) Pollute the pond.
(c) Eventually become harmless.
(d) Generate electricity.

2. What does Ann decide she will do after cooking breakfast?
(a) Go to the store.
(b) Go fishing.
(c) Practice the piano.
(d) Write in her journal.

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

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

5. Why does Ann decide to hide from a visitor?
(a) She decides there are worse things than being alone.
(b) She has no decent clothes.
(c) She wants to surprise them.
(d) She does not want to scare the person.

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

7. After four days, what does Loomis' temperature mean?
(a) He will get sicker, but will most likely survive.
(b) He has the worse form of radiation.
(c) He is pretty much cured.
(d) He is still in the interim period.

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

9. What does Ann use to gather greens?
(a) The basket her mother always used.
(b) A wheelbarrow.
(c) A rolling suitcase.
(d) A plastic grocery bag.

10. What does the man notice in Burden Creek?
(a) A lack of animal life in the creek.
(b) Lots of algae.
(c) Some turtles.
(d) Large mouth bass.

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

12. What does Ann decide to do about safety?
(a) She will hide all the guns in the cave.
(b) She will rig up an alram system.
(c) She won't swim alone.
(d) She will hide from whoever is coming towards the valley.

13. What does Ann fear about Loomis?
(a) He will leave.
(b) He might be getting delirious again.
(c) He will start trying to boss her around.
(d) He will want to get married.

14. What set of reading material does Ann give Loomis?
(a) The Farmer's Almanacs from the last twenty-five years.
(b) A couple carpentry books.
(c) The Farmer's Mechanic.
(d) A stack of Mother Earth magazines.

15. Where has Ann been on the morning of the opening of the book?
(a) School.
(b) The doctor's office.
(c) Church.
(d) In the hayloft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Loomis say Ann's family probably died?

2. What does Ann observe as she sits in her cave at night?

3. With what information does the book open in the first sentence?

4. Since it is June, what is urgent that Ann do?

5. What bothers Ann about the man and her chickens?

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