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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nyle wonder about her mask?
(a) How it could protect her against something unseen.
(b) Whether it was any longer necessary.
(c) If they would have to wear the mask for the rest of their lives.
(d) If the mask would eventually become radioactive.

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

3. 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.

4. Why does Nyle show Mrs. Trent the book about a boy in a train station?
(a) To ask her if she has read it.
(b) To suggest Mrs. Trent read the book to Ezra.
(c) To get her approval.
(d) To suggest Ezra is like the boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eventually comes out to greet Nyle?

2. What does Nyle do after shrugging off her uneasy feeling?

3. What does the principal announce on the day it rains?

4. Who killed the sheep?

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

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