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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. Where does Ann take the cows and young bull?
(a) To a far pasture.
(b) To the neighobor's farm.
(c) To the cave.
(d) No where.

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

3. 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 is alone in the lab.
(c) He was on his way to pick up his children.
(d) He and seven others were in the lab when the bombs fell.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does her parents say they are going first in their explorations?

2. What is Ann's first impulse when the man yells for anyone?

3. What does Ann play for Mr. Loomis?

4. What does Ann decide she should do?

5. What did Loomis' boss invent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why concerns Ann about the approaching stranger?

4. How does Loomis manage to survive on his long journey walking from New York?

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

6. What does Loomis say about his activities the night the war breaks out?

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

8. Why does Ann think someone is coming to her valley?

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

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

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