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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 do the girls gather loose wool?
(a) In the barn.
(b) In the patures.
(c) Stuck on barbed wire.
(d) By combing the sheep.
2. What is not out as usual?
(a) The afternoon paper.
(b) A snack for Nyle.
(c) The log keeper.
(d) The firestriker.
3. What does Ezra now have the strength to do?
(a) Start back on his school work.
(b) Go outside for brief periods of time.
(c) Learn to card wool.
(d) Walk to and fro in his room.
4. What does a nurse do to Ezra?
(a) Tell him he is getting better.
(b) Hook up an IV.
(c) Inject him with gammaglobulin.
(d) Take his blood pressure.
5. What does Nyla decide is one of the things she needs to do?
(a) Help a little with Ezra's physical care.
(b) Ask her gran about the truth about her father.
(c) Make friends with Ripley.
(d) Tell Muncie about Ezra.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens when the girls accidentally rile Ripley?
2. What does Municie tell Nyle?
3. What does Nyla notice about Ezra when she enters his room?
4. Where does Gran want Nyle to accompany her?
5. What do the girls do in Radio Shack?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mrs. Haskins assign her students to do and do you think this is mixing education with politics?
2. What is evidence of Ezra's continue improvement?
3. Why is it ironic that Nyle has to frighten off Tyrus from the sheep?
4. What does Nyle ask her Gran about sheep farming and what is Gran's response? Does Nyle's response surprise you?
5. What does Nyle see as she approaches the farmhouse and what might it foreshadow?
6. Would you have responded the same way as Nyle when Muncie asks her what is going on at Nyle's house?
7. Describe Nyle's attempts to scare the neighbor's dog, Tyrus, away from the sheep. Why does Nyle want Tyrus to get off her property?
8. Describe Nyle and Muncie's encounter with Ripley and what you think the encounter may foreshadow.
9. Of what is the open curtain symbolic?
10. What happens that demonstrates one minor theme in this book--that is, not accepting people for who they are?
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