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

3. What does Nyla do with her mask after talking with Gran?
(a) She rips it into tiny pieces.
(b) She hang it on a hook in the kitchen as a symbol of remembrance.
(c) She burns it.
(d) She says she is going to keep wearing it for a few more days.

4. What does Nyle want to know?
(a) If Ezra has any chance to live.
(b) If Ezra and his mother should have left sooner.
(c) If the people nearby should have stayed or left.
(d) If her father died quickly.

5. What does Nyla not want to tell Muncie?
(a) That she doesn't want Muncie to come over anymore.
(b) That she is going to the dance with a boy.
(c) About how Nyla's father died.
(d) About Ezra and Mrs. Trent.

6. What do the girls do as they approach the farmhouse?
(a) Tell a joke about Ripley.
(b) Take the sheep to the barn.
(c) Play a game with stones.
(d) Go their separate ways.

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. Who defends Muncie before Nyle has the chance to do so?
(a) Muncie.
(b) Bob.
(c) Dan.
(d) Gran.

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

13. Of what does Ezra's speaking just once remind Mrs. Trent?
(a) Her husband's passing.
(b) That Ezra used to be such a talker.
(c) A passage in the Torah.
(d) Of the need to keep Ezra from knowing about his father.

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

15. What does Gran not do as she usually does?
(a) Calls from the pantry for Nyle to wash up.
(b) Open the front door.
(c) Greet Nyle with a hug.
(d) Sit in the rocker for a cup of pre-supper coffee.