View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does a nurse do to Ezra?
(a) Take his blood pressure.
(b) Inject him with gammaglobulin.
(c) Hook up an IV.
(d) Tell him he is getting better.

3. What does Muncie say when Nyle asks her opinion about the people who used to live in Cookshire?
(a) She expresses compassion for them.
(b) She says she didn't know any of them are sick.
(c) She says she thinks they all were moved to London.
(d) Muncie's tone gets judgmental about the people sick with radiation.

4. Who eventually comes out to greet Nyle?
(a) Mr. Trent.
(b) Gran.
(c) Baylor.
(d) Caleb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Ezra's speaking just once remind Mrs. Trent?

2. What does Mr. Harris do?

3. What is not out as usual?

4. What does Mrs. Trent do when she comes into the room where Nyla and Ezra are?

5. Why does Nyle show Mrs. Trent the book about a boy in a train station?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 325 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample