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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. Why doesn't I'll answer Muncie's question?
(a) Nyle is lost in thought about Ezra.
(b) Nyle is talking to someone else.
(c) Nyle doesn't hear Muncie.
(d) Nyle is listening on her headsets.

2. About what is Muncie asking Nyle?
(a) A book assigned in English class.
(b) Who she is going with to a school dance.
(c) If Ezra was nice.
(d) Why she allows Tyrus in their fields.

3. How does Mrs. Trent disappoint her parents?
(a) By moving away from Israel.
(b) By marrying too young.
(c) By marrying outside the faith.
(d) By converting to Roman Catholicism.

4. What is different about Muncie?
(a) She is behind her class group by three years.
(b) She is Chinese.
(c) She is physically deformed.
(d) She is a genius.

5. What happens when the girls accidentally rile Ripley?
(a) He says he's going to sic the dog on them.
(b) He throws a snowball and hits Muncie hard in the stomach.
(c) He walks away.
(d) He says he's going to go talk to Mr. Harris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ezra ask that Nyla does not know?

2. What does Ezra say about the puppy?

3. What does Ezra do when Nyla introduces herself?

4. Who killed the sheep?

5. What does Gran say Nyle needs to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nyle's first encounter with Ezra.

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

3. Of what is the open curtain symbolic?

4. The issue of a drawn curtain occurs in this chapter, in previous chapters, and in future chapters. How does this issue come up in this chapter and venture a guess as to the significance of the incident.

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

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

7. Contrast the back room how it was used when Nyle is small versus in the story now.

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

9. What happens that demonstrates one minor theme in this book--that is, not accepting people for who they are?

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

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