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

2. What does Nyle decide about the next day?
(a) She will find a book to share with Ezra.
(b) She will stay at her cousin's house.
(c) She will avoid the back bedroom.
(d) She will visit Ezra again.

3. What does Nyle reply to Muncie's statement?
(a) That she wasn't as brave as she might have seemed.
(b) That no one will tell her who to hang out with.
(c) That they should put the sheep on a cart and call the vet.
(d) That she puts up with powers because he is violent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed the sheep?

2. Who comes on the t.v. to talk about the radiation accident?

3. About what is Muncie asking Nyle?

4. What does Mr. Harris do?

5. What does Nyla offer to help do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does Nyle ask her Gran about sheep farming and what is Gran's response? Does Nyle's response surprise you?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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.

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