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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. Who is Dr. Kylmer?
(a) Loomis' brother-in-law.
(b) A man who worked with Edward.
(c) A man who invented a special radiation counter.
(d) Loomis' best friend.

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

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

4. Whom does the man feed?
(a) The chickens.
(b) The bull.
(c) Faro.
(d) The cows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Loomis say about the night the bombs fall?

2. What does Ann fear about Loomis?

3. About whom does Ann ask Loomis?

4. What does the man do at the pond?

5. What does Ann think about in a flashback to right after the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the man discover his terrible error about the Creek and what does he do?

2. What does Ann decide to do to make cooking easier in the house?

3. Why is Mr. Loomis at Burden Creek when Ann returns from picking greens, and how does he think the Creek can be used?

4. What does Ann decide to do as the stranger draws closer?

5. What does Ann hear Loomis saying in his dreams and what does Ann think about what she hears?

6. Why does Ann decide to go down to the farm yard and what does she discover?

7. What does Ann worry about when she discovers that Faro has returned?

8. How does Ann describe the newly-arrived stranger?

9. What does the man do with his Geiger counter and then what terrible error does he make?

10. What is the situation in the valley about the water supply?

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