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

2. What does Ezra ask that Nyla does not know?
(a) That he be allowed to die.
(b) That Nyla not visit him anymore.
(c) That the curtins to his bedroom remain drawn.
(d) That Nyla not read to him anymore.

3. Why does Muncie go home angry at Nyle?
(a) Because Nyle told her she is going to the Christmas dance.
(b) Because she does not offer Muncie lunch.
(c) Because she will not say who is at the window.
(d) Because she does not defend Muncie agains Ripley.

4. What is the real reason Nyle declines Muncie's invitation?
(a) She doesn't want to see the movie Muncie has.
(b) She doesn't like spinning wool.
(c) She has to go be checked for possible radiation poisoning.
(d) She has to go sit with Ezra.

5. What do Muncie and Nyle do one day after school?
(a) Go to the movies.
(b) Fix fences.
(c) Ride horses.
(d) Visit Ezra so he can meet Muncie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ezra do when Nyle goes to pull back the window curtain.

2. What is the only thing Ezra says to Nyle?

3. Where does Gran want Nyle to accompany her?

4. Who is with Nyle when she sees a sheep lying still?

5. From where are the mother and son in the back room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it ironic that Nyle has to frighten off Tyrus from the sheep?

2. What is ironic about Ezra's feeling about the back room?

3. What does Nyle see as she approaches the farmhouse and what might it foreshadow?

4. How do you think the theme of determination plays out in this chapter?

5. What does Nyle ask her Gran about sheep farming and what is Gran's response? Does Nyle's response surprise you?

6. What is evidence of Ezra's continue improvement?

7. What are the girls studying in their English class that is a major theme of this book?

8. Describe Ezra's response to Nyle when she comes to read to him.

9. Would you have responded the same way as Nyle when Muncie asks her what is going on at Nyle's house?

10. What emotion do you think Muncie is feeling as she inquires why Nyle did not come study with her the night before?

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