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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nyla do as she nuzzles Bayley?
(a) Tells Bayley that she wishes her father were here.
(b) Asks Bayley why he never seems sad.
(c) Thinks that Ezra will die.
(d) Tells Bayley about her problems with Muncie.

2. About what is Muncie asking Nyle?
(a) If Ezra was nice.
(b) Why she allows Tyrus in their fields.
(c) Who she is going with to a school dance.
(d) A book assigned in English class.

3. What does Nyle think about her science lesson?
(a) That there were plenty of fruit flies on the bananas back home.
(b) That she hated the smell of sulfur.
(c) That she didn't think zygots were so interesting.
(d) That it would have been better not to experience it firsthand.

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

5. What does Mr. Sobel tell the students?
(a) About zygots.
(b) That they would be doing an experiment with sulfur.
(c) That the fruit fly experiment has been canceled because the radiation killed the flies.
(d) About radioactive materials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nyla notice about Ezra when she enters his room?

2. What does Gran say Nyle needs to do?

3. What is unusual about Nyle's house that makes her stop?

4. What brings up the topic of the nuclear accident?

5. What does Nyla not want to tell Muncie?

(see the answer key)

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