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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nyle want to know?
(a) If her father died quickly.
(b) If Ezra has any chance to live.
(c) If Ezra and his mother should have left sooner.
(d) If the people nearby should have stayed or left.

2. What does Muncie say when Nyle asks her opinion about the people who used to live in Cookshire?
(a) She expresses compassion for them.
(b) Muncie's tone gets judgmental about the people sick with radiation.
(c) She says she thinks they all were moved to London.
(d) She says she didn't know any of them are sick.

3. Why doesn't I'll answer Muncie's question?
(a) Nyle is listening on her headsets.
(b) Nyle is talking to someone else.
(c) Nyle doesn't hear Muncie.
(d) Nyle is lost in thought about Ezra.

4. What does Mrs. Haskins assign the students to write?
(a) A personal story about the accident.
(b) A letter to their best friend and talk about their fears.
(c) A letter to their friends or families out of town telling them about the accident.
(d) A letter to their congressional representatives and senators.

5. What does Nyla decide she can do to help Ezra?
(a) Sing to him.
(b) Play checkers with him.
(c) Read to him.
(d) Draw pictures of her dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Mrs. Haskins been?

2. What is the real reason Nyle declines Muncie's invitation?

3. What does Mrs. Trent do when she comes into the room where Nyla and Ezra are?

4. How does Munice interpret Nyla's reluctance to talk?

5. Why does Nyle show Mrs. Trent the book about a boy in a train station?

(see the answer key)

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