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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 thinks they all were moved to London.
(c) She says she didn't know any of them are sick.
(d) Muncie's tone gets judgmental about the people sick with radiation.

2. What does Mrs. Haskins assign the students to write?
(a) A personal story about the accident.
(b) A letter to their friends or families out of town telling them about the accident.
(c) A letter to their best friend and talk about their fears.
(d) A letter to their congressional representatives and senators.

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

4. How does Nyle try to entice Ezra out of his room?
(a) With the promise of a hay ride.
(b) By offering him a ride on her horse.
(c) By offering to let him watch an ewe have her lamb.
(d) With the promise of watching a meteor shower.

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

6. 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.

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

8. What does Ezra say he feels like?
(a) A mack truck ran over him.
(b) A battering ram.
(c) Superman.
(d) A phoenix.

9. Who is with Nyle when she sees a sheep lying still?
(a) Ripley.
(b) Tyrus.
(c) Muncie.
(d) Phoebe.

10. What does Ezra do when he sees the new puppy Nyle gets him?
(a) Says it's the best present he's ever had.
(b) Screams that it's radioactive.
(c) Immediately puts it in the bed with him.
(d) Names it Shep's girl.

11. What does Nyle reply to Muncie's statement?
(a) That she wasn't as brave as she might have seemed.
(b) That she puts up with powers because he is violent.
(c) That no one will tell her who to hang out with.
(d) That they should put the sheep on a cart and call the vet.

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

13. What would Nyla have to do if the wind shifts?
(a) Wear a radiation suit along with her mask.
(b) Leave behind all her treasures.
(c) Help grandma move Mrs. Trent and Ezra.
(d) Get all the sheep into the barn.

14. What do Muncie and Nyle do one day after school?
(a) Fix fences.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Ride horses.
(d) Visit Ezra so he can meet Muncie.

15. What does the person want?
(a) She wants the girls to come in for lunch.
(b) He wants to learn more about the sheep.
(c) He wants Muncie to come home.
(d) His dog, Tyrus, is missing again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not out as usual?

2. Who comes up to the girls in the pasture.

3. Who is Tyrus?

4. What surprises Nyle when she goes to give Ezra a lesson on sheep farming?

5. What does Gran not do as she usually does?

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