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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Trent do when she comes into the room where Nyla and Ezra are?
(a) Mrs. Trent kisses her son and says a prayer for him.
(b) Mrs. Trent tells Nyla Ezra is actually her nephew.
(c) Mrs. Trent lays her hand on Nyla's head and blesses her.
(d) Mrs. Trent starts crying.

2. Who does not answer Nyle's calls?
(a) Nyle's grandpa.
(b) Nyle's mother.
(c) Gran and the dog and cat.
(d) Nyle's father.

3. What does Ezra now have the strength to do?
(a) Walk to and fro in his room.
(b) Go outside for brief periods of time.
(c) Start back on his school work.
(d) Learn to card wool.

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

5. What is not out as usual?
(a) A snack for Nyle.
(b) The log keeper.
(c) The firestriker.
(d) The afternoon paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ezra do when he sees the new puppy Nyle gets him?

2. What are Nyle and Gran doing down in the cellar?

3. What is unusual about Nyle's house that makes her stop?

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

5. What does Mr. Sobel tell the students?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it obvious that the two teens feel some attraction for each other?

2. Describe Ezra's response to Nyle when she comes to read to him.

3. Mrs. Trent reveals that she disappoints her parents by marrying out of the faith and that she is paying the price now. Do you think this is true?

4. Ten days after the accident, what does the Principal announce and what do you think your response would be?

5. Describe Nyle and Muncie's encounter with Ripley and what you think the encounter may foreshadow.

6. Would you have responded the same way as Nyle when Muncie asks her what is going on at Nyle's house?

7. What emotion do you think Muncie is feeling as she inquires why Nyle did not come study with her the night before?

8. What is ironic about Ezra's feeling about the back room?

9. Describe Nyle's first encounter with Ezra.

10. What does it mean when Nyle looks at all of her treasures and realizes that if the wind shifts, she will have to leave them all behind?

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