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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 Nyle ask Gran?
(a) What her dad was like.
(b) How Gran copes with so much death.
(c) Why Granpa died so suddenly.
(d) What Gran likes best about sheep farming.

2. Who does Nyle invite along?
(a) Ripley.
(b) Ezra.
(c) No one.
(d) Muncie.

3. What brings up the topic of the nuclear accident?
(a) Talking about Ezra.
(b) A book about death and belonging.
(c) Seeing all the masks the kids are wearing.
(d) Seeing the towers of the power plant.

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

5. What is unusual about Nyle's house that makes her stop?
(a) The chimney has smoke coming out of it.
(b) There are no lights on.
(c) The front door is ajar.
(d) The back bedroom's curtain is closed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Municie tell Nyle?

3. What does Nyla offer to help do?

4. Who is with Nyle when she sees a sheep lying still?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nyle's first encounter with Ezra.

2. Why is it ironic that Nyle has to frighten off Tyrus from the sheep?

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

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

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. How does the emotion of anger appear in this chapter?

8. 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?

9. What does Nyle see as she approaches the farmhouse and what might it foreshadow?

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

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