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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Nyle refuse Muncie's invitation?
(a) She has to bring in the sheep after the snowfall.
(b) She has to go home to care for Ezra.
(c) She wants to go to the exhibit with a boy she likes who asks her.
(d) She is not allowed cake before dinner.

3. What does Nyla not want to tell Muncie?
(a) That she doesn't want Muncie to come over anymore.
(b) That she is going to the dance with a boy.
(c) About how Nyla's father died.
(d) About Ezra and Mrs. Trent.

4. Who is in the back room?
(a) Nyle's cousin.
(b) Nyle's father.
(c) Grandpa.
(d) Evacuees.

5. Of what does Ezra's speaking just once remind Mrs. Trent?
(a) A passage in the Torah.
(b) Her husband's passing.
(c) Of the need to keep Ezra from knowing about his father.
(d) That Ezra used to be such a talker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gran say Nyle needs to do?

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

4. About what is Muncie asking Nyle?

5. What does Nyle want to know?

(see the answer key)

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