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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 Ezra call Nyle?
(a) Nylie.
(b) Nyle.
(c) Shep.
(d) Sheep Herder.
2. What does Nyla decide she can do to help Ezra?
(a) Read to him.
(b) Draw pictures of her dog.
(c) Play checkers with him.
(d) Sing to him.
3. 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 has to go be checked for possible radiation poisoning.
(d) She doesn't want to see the movie Muncie has.
4. Who eventually comes out to greet Nyle?
(a) Baylor.
(b) Mr. Trent.
(c) Gran.
(d) Caleb.
5. Who killed the sheep?
(a) Brute.
(b) Gompher.
(c) Tyrus.
(d) Ripley.
Short Answer Questions
1. About what do the two teens talk?
2. What does a nurse do to Ezra?
3. Why does Muncie go home angry at Nyle?
4. What is different about Muncie?
5. What does Mrs. Haskins assign the students to write?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mr. Sobel get Nyle thinking about radiation poisoning and why is the topic particularly applicable?
2. What does Nyle ask her Gran about sheep farming and what is Gran's response? Does Nyle's response surprise you?
3. What is the first sign of hope that Ezra shows?
4. 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?
5. Describe Nyle's first encounter with Ezra.
6. 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?
7. Describe Ezra's response to Nyle when she comes to read to him.
8. Contrast the back room how it was used when Nyle is small versus in the story now.
9. What is ironic about Ezra's feeling about the back room?
10. How is it obvious that the two teens feel some attraction for each other?
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