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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nyle's fear about Gran and the Trents?
(a) That Gran will return home alone.
(b) That the Trents will decide to stay in the larger city.
(c) That they could have an accident in the snow.
(d) That the government will not help.

2. What are Nyle and Gran doing down in the cellar?
(a) Canning fruit.
(b) Sorting through the potatoes.
(c) Making cheese.
(d) Making sauerkraut.

3. What does Nyle like?
(a) The smell of green wood burning.
(b) The smell of hay burning.
(c) The crispness of the air.
(d) The two of them holding hands.

4. 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) Muncie's tone gets judgmental about the people sick with radiation.
(d) She says she thinks they all were moved to London.

5. What happens when the girls accidentally rile Ripley?
(a) He throws a snowball and hits Muncie hard in the stomach.
(b) He says he's going to sic the dog on them.
(c) He walks away.
(d) He says he's going to go talk to Mr. Harris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nyla offer to help do?

2. What is different about Muncie?

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

4. How does Ezra treat his studies?

5. What does Muncie invite Nyle to do?

(see the answer key)

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