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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nyle do when she and Ezra are upstairs in Nyle's room?
(a) Play a game of chess.
(b) Walk the detector around the room to prove there is no radioactive particles.
(c) Watch TV
(d) Listen to the radio.

2. What brings up the topic of the nuclear accident?
(a) Seeing all the masks the kids are wearing.
(b) Seeing the towers of the power plant.
(c) Talking about Ezra.
(d) A book about death and belonging.

3. What does Ezra do when he sees the new puppy Nyle gets him?
(a) Says it's the best present he's ever had.
(b) Screams that it's radioactive.
(c) Immediately puts it in the bed with him.
(d) Names it Shep's girl.

4. Where has Mrs. Haskins been?
(a) At a teacher's convention.
(b) Out of the country.
(c) In bed ill.
(d) On personal leave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the two teens talk?

2. Who goes with Nyle to watch the meteor shower?

3. How does Nyle try to entice Ezra out of his room?

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

5. What does Ezra put in his arms?

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