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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Muncie invite Nyle to do?
(a) Make a cake.
(b) Go with her to the 4-H exhibit.
(c) Stay and spin the wool.
(d) Spend the night so they can watch a movie.

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

3. What do the teachers and principal monitor?
(a) The impact on the students' academic progress by the crisis.
(b) The students' physical health.
(c) The radiation levels.
(d) The students' psychological health.

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

5. What does Nyle think about her science lesson?
(a) That there were plenty of fruit flies on the bananas back home.
(b) That it would have been better not to experience it firsthand.
(c) That she hated the smell of sulfur.
(d) That she didn't think zygots were so interesting.

6. What does Nyla monitor as the days pass by?
(a) The arrival of winter.
(b) Ezra's non-movement.
(c) The coming of Christmas.
(d) The sheep's progress who was hurt by Tyrus.

7. What does Nyle notice when she goes downstairs in her home?
(a) That Muncie is in the foyer.
(b) That her father is in the kitchen.
(c) That the back bedroom door is open.
(d) That her grandma is cooking.

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

9. Who comes up to the girls in the pasture.
(a) Ripley.
(b) Mr. Harris.
(c) Gran.
(d) Ezra.

10. What does Gran say Nyle needs to do?
(a) Make friends with Ezra.
(b) Make friends with Ripley.
(c) Make friends with Tyrus.
(d) Make friends with Muncie.

11. What does Ezra say about the puppy?
(a) Its fur is the same color as his dog that died.
(b) Ezra does not want Nyle to bring him anything to love.
(c) It seems to like Ezra already.
(d) It is going to be an awfully large dog.

12. What does the principal announce on the day it rains?
(a) That the rain will contaminate the groundwater.
(b) That the air is still radioactive and not to remove their masks.
(c) That the leak is contained and the air is good.
(d) That the rain will wash away any contamination.

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

14. What is the most interesting aspect of the weather right now?
(a) Snow has fallen.
(b) It is warm and sunny.
(c) It has hailed golf-sized balls.
(d) It is unseasonably warm.

15. When Nyla starts crying, what does Ezra do?
(a) Tells her she is being too loud.
(b) Offers her a tissue.
(c) Asks if she is crying.
(d) Tells her not to feel sorry for herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the back room?

2. Why does Nyle allow the strain in her and Muncie's friendship to continue?

3. Who comes on the t.v. to talk about the radiation accident?

4. What does Nyle ask Gran?

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

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