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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nyle ask Gran?
(a) What her dad was like.
(b) What Gran likes best about sheep farming.
(c) Why Granpa died so suddenly.
(d) How Gran copes with so much death.

3. Who goes with Nyle to watch the meteor shower?
(a) No one; there is no meteor shower.
(b) Caleb.
(c) Gran.
(d) Muncie.

4. What does Nyla offer to help do?
(a) Help Muncie card and spin the wool.
(b) Stay after school and clean chalk boards.
(c) Teach Muncie's pony to wear a bridle.
(d) Move Ezra outside for some fresh air.

5. How does Munice interpret Nyla's reluctance to talk?
(a) That Nyla has a secret.
(b) That Nyla doesn't like talking through her mask.
(c) That Nyla is taking what Ripley said seriously.
(d) That Nyla is not feeling well.

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

7. What does Nyle decide to add to the farm?
(a) A horse to replace the pony Mr. Harris bought for Muncie.
(b) A guard dog.
(c) A new ram.
(d) A new feeding trough.

8. What does Ezra do when Nyla introduces herself?
(a) He turns away from her.
(b) He sits up and asks her what the book is that she's carrying.
(c) He says hello and tells her his name.
(d) He blinks, nods and then closes his eyes again.

9. What is different about Muncie?
(a) She is behind her class group by three years.
(b) She is physically deformed.
(c) She is Chinese.
(d) She is a genius.

10. Why does Muncie go home angry at Nyle?
(a) Because she does not defend Muncie agains Ripley.
(b) Because Nyle told her she is going to the Christmas dance.
(c) Because she will not say who is at the window.
(d) Because she does not offer Muncie lunch.

11. What surprises Nyle when she goes to give Ezra a lesson on sheep farming?
(a) He is looking out the window.
(b) Ezra is at a table working a jigsaw puzzle.
(c) He has a present for her.
(d) He is upright leaning on canes.

12. What does Nyle decide about the next day?
(a) She will stay at her cousin's house.
(b) She will visit Ezra again.
(c) She will find a book to share with Ezra.
(d) She will avoid the back bedroom.

13. What do the girls do in Radio Shack?
(a) Play a video game.
(b) Play with the radio operated cars.
(c) Look at an ipod.
(d) Watch the t.v.

14. What does Mr. Harris do?
(a) Tells Nyle and Muncie a scary story as they card wool.
(b) Builds a fire for Nyle and Muncie.
(c) Milks the cow to make ice cream.
(d) Plays the banjo to entertain the girls as they card wool.

15. Why does Nyle allow the strain in her and Muncie's friendship to continue?
(a) She isn't sure she wants Muncie as a friend anymore.
(b) She isn't aware of the strain.
(c) She doesn't want to tell Muncie about Ezra and his mom.
(d) She thinks Muncie is the one at fault.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who eventually comes out to greet Nyle?

3. What does Municie tell Nyle?

4. What is the most interesting aspect of the weather right now?

5. What is the real reason Nyle declines Muncie's invitation?

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