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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 is the real reason Nyle declines Muncie's invitation?
(a) She has to go sit with Ezra.
(b) She doesn't like spinning wool.
(c) She doesn't want to see the movie Muncie has.
(d) She has to go be checked for possible radiation poisoning.

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

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

4. What does Mr. Sobel tell the students?
(a) About zygots.
(b) About radioactive materials.
(c) That they would be doing an experiment with sulfur.
(d) That the fruit fly experiment has been canceled because the radiation killed the flies.

5. What does Ezra call Nyle?
(a) Nyle.
(b) Shep.
(c) Sheep Herder.
(d) Nylie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who defends Muncie before Nyle has the chance to do so?

2. What does Nyla decide is one of the things she needs to do?

3. What does Ezra say about the puppy?

4. What does Mrs. Trent do when she comes into the room where Nyla and Ezra are?

5. How does Nyle try to entice Ezra out of his room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the girls do in Radio Shack and why is that ironic?

2. What are the girls studying in their English class that is a major theme of this book?

3. What adds to the tension between the Muncie and Nyle?

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

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

6. What does Mrs. Haskins assign her students to do and do you think this is mixing education with politics?

7. Describe Nyle's attempts to scare the neighbor's dog, Tyrus, away from the sheep. Why does Nyle want Tyrus to get off her property?

8. What do you think Ezra means when he says he feels like a phoenix?

9. Of what is the open curtain symbolic?

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

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