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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nyle go through her clothes?
(a) To start mending her summer clothes.
(b) To take some to the clothing drive at school.
(c) To see if she can find some for Mrs. Trent.
(d) To find her Spring outfits.

2. Why does Ezra go back to his room?
(a) Ezra is tired from his foray into the kitchen.
(b) Ezra is still afraid of the puppy.
(c) Nyle teases him to hard.
(d) Nyle has to help Gran with the sheep.

3. What do Gran, Miriam, Ezra and Nyle decide to do?
(a) Attend a concert at the school.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Go out to eat.
(d) Play monopoly.

4. What happens after Nyle reads a paper to Ezra?
(a) He is sure she will be able to publish it.
(b) He tells her it is astonishing.
(c) He throws his paper away.
(d) He says it needs some work.

5. Why doesn't Nyle and Gran celebrate Christmas this year?
(a) Because they have no money.
(b) Because they think it's gotten too commercialized.
(c) Because of the power plant accident and the Trents never do.
(d) They never celebrate Christmas.

6. What does Nyle see when she spots Ezra throughout the day?
(a) He is surrounded by girls.
(b) He is alone and seems confused.
(c) He is wearing his mask again.
(d) He is limping badly.

7. What happens when Muncie, Nyle and Ezra get to the house?
(a) Nyle begins sobbing.
(b) Gran gets her shotgun out and goes to the truck.
(c) Mrs. Trent sobs at the sight of Ezra.
(d) Gran and Mrs. Trent nurse Ezra and the girls go up to clean up.

8. What do Ezra and Nyle feel as they walk back to the house?
(a) A little embarrassed.
(b) A deeper connection.
(c) Elation.
(d) Sadness.

9. What does Mr. Perry tell Nyle?
(a) That he knows about the evacuees at the house.
(b) That she is eligible for a full scholarship to college.
(c) That she is the valdictorian of the class.
(d) That she can get into the new A & M college because of her grades.

10. What does Gran and Nyle deliver to Aunt May and Uncle Lemmy?
(a) A pregnant sow.
(b) A large bushel of mustard greens.
(c) Two pregnant ewes.
(d) Two pregnant dairy cows.

11. What is Nyla's assignment for History?
(a) To study the reason for the Constitution.
(b) To write a letter to someone in history who has had the greatest impact on her.
(c) To memorize a famous speech.
(d) To read up on nuclear power.

12. How does Ezra treat his studies?
(a) He "devours" them.
(b) He reads them dutifully.
(c) He refuses to have anything to do with them.
(d) He is loathe to pick up a book.

13. What happens to Ezra as they walk towards the house?
(a) Nyle trips and falls.
(b) Ezra tenses.
(c) Ezra falls.
(d) Nyle sees a strange car in the driveway.

14. What makes Nyle anger that she runs back to the house?
(a) Thinking about the government's lies.
(b) Seeing a little fawn that is obviously suffering from radiation poisoning.
(c) Seeing a dead squirrel with radiation boils.
(d) Thinking about her father.

15. How does the back bedroom look now?
(a) The same as always.
(b) Like a woodworking shop.
(c) Like a library.
(d) Less like an infirmary and more like a healthy teenage boy's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ripley start crying?

2. What does Mrs. Trent ask Nyle do to before Mrs. Trent leaves the kitchen?

3. What does Nyle do when she and Ezra are upstairs in Nyle's room?

4. What does Ezra decide about his life?

5. What does she do after sitting down?

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