I didn’t know it at the time, but everything I learned back then would help me survive. For as long as I could remember I’d hunted rabbits up on the edge of the farmland, dived off the point for abalone and caught crays in season. I knew every nook and cranny of the tea trees along the dunes and every trail and bike track through the bush. I understood the weather patterns like they were part of me. The big westerlies that pushed up the swell, the southerlies that brought the chill up from Antarctica and, in summer, the northerlies that blew heat down off the inland.

We can make the inference that Finn .................

(Finn) For years I had problems -------; I couldn’t seem to form the words properly. It was like trying to talk with a mouth full of sand, so mostly I just stayed quiet. Mum and Dad could understand me well enough, and Rowdy too.

Which word would best fill the gap

The main road into town was barricaded and patrols were set up to stop people coming from the north. But they came anyway, finding their way down through the bush tracks to somewhere they thought would be safer.  That’s probably how the virus reached us.

The virus reached probably reached Angowrie via ...............

  Which of these quotes is the best evidence that the people of Angowrie were planning to rob the store?

The owner of the store, Jim Sackville, tried to warn the crowd away with .....

  ‘All right, everyone,’ he said. ‘Let’s just keep calm. Jim’s got a right to guard his business. This is his livelihood.’

This shows that Finn's father was trying to ....................

Which of these sentences provides the best evidence that Finn's Dad has also been injured?

People were fighting each other for food, punching and kicking anyone out of their way.

This shows .......

When I glanced at Dad his eyes were closed, and I saw that he was bleeding. He had a huge gash up high on his thigh and he’d put his hand there to stop it spurting.

The most likely inference here is that Finn's Dad ........

In the weeks before he died, Dad had been stockpiling stuff from his hardware store in an old garage at the back of a property on a quiet street away from the middle of town. He only knew about it because he used to deliver gas bottles to the holiday house next door, but it meant we had our own supplies.

Here, the text is suggesting that Finn's father ...........

  In the end, I still don’t know how many people died and how many left, but pretty soon the town was close to ...........

  ‘Listen to me, darling, listen carefully. Go and sleep in the house next to the storage shed with all our supplies. I’ll be okay. Don’t worry about me. I love you, Finny. You know that, don’t you? I love you with all my heart and there’s nothing I want to do more right now than hug you. But you can’t come back here, baby. Never. You understand? Never!

Here, we see that Finn's mother ............

Through that first winter me and Ray traded food every month or so. I’d catch rabbits for him and he’d give me honey from his hives or veggies grown in his garden. It was tempting to move out there and live with him—I reckon he would have liked that—but I had my stores to protect and his farm was too far from the surf.

Finn doesn't want to move in with Ray because ..... (Choose two answers)

The deaths of Finn's parents and his meeting with Ray are told as flashbacks. This means that .............

  I undo my leg-rope in the shallows and hold the board in front of me in case I need protection. But this bloke’s just standing there, putting his hand out, trying to soothe Rowdy.  When I get closer I see he’s as small as me, thin as a whippet. Rangy. Hair long and ropey right down his back and falling across his face. He’s wearing an old pair of shorts and a way too big jumper.  Then he starts talking and it hits me. It’s a girl. Voice real high and panicky.