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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 Ezra do when Nyle goes to pull back the window curtain.
(a) He hides under the covers.
(b) He asks if she made the curtains.
(c) He asks her not to do so.
(d) He gets up to go look outside.

2. What is the personal question Nyle asks of Ezra?
(a) How it feels to be in a coma.
(b) Why he doesn't want the curtain opened.
(c) How he got the scar on his forehead.
(d) If he thinks he is going to die.

3. Of what does Mrs. Trent start showing symptoms?
(a) The flu.
(b) Radiation poisoning.
(c) Stress-induced anxiety.
(d) Fear for Ezra.

4. What do the girls do in Radio Shack?
(a) Watch the t.v.
(b) Look at an ipod.
(c) Play a video game.
(d) Play with the radio operated cars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gran say Nyle needs to do?

2. What is different about Muncie?

3. Why does Nyle allow the strain in her and Muncie's friendship to continue?

4. What do Muncie and Nyle do after working in the pasture?

5. What does Ezra call Nyle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Ezra means when he says he feels like a phoenix?

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

3. Describe Nyle and Muncie's encounter with Ripley and what you think the encounter may foreshadow.

4. How does the emotion of anger appear in this chapter?

5. What else occurs at the beginning of this chapter that gives Nyle a sense of unease?

6. Mrs. Trent reveals that she disappoints her parents by marrying out of the faith and that she is paying the price now. Do you think this is true?

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

8. What does Mrs. Haskins assign her students to do and do you think this is mixing education with politics?

9. What happens that demonstrates one minor theme in this book--that is, not accepting people for who they are?

10. What does it mean when Nyle looks at all of her treasures and realizes that if the wind shifts, she will have to leave them all behind?

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