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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 Gran burning?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Dinner.
(c) A hay bale.
(d) Green wood.

2. What does Nyle choose to do?
(a) Study Ben Franklin's comments on the Constitution.
(b) Write about Anne Frank.
(c) Memorize the Gettysburg Address.
(d) Read about how the atom was discovered.

3. As Nyle is taking wood into her house, what does she spy?
(a) A sheep that must have gotten out of the pasture.
(b) Someone in the driveway.
(c) The puppy chasing a cat.
(d) A robin on the chimney.

4. What does Nyle do as Ezra walks into the kitchen?
(a) Moves the geiger counter around to show it is safe.
(b) Tells him the puppy ran away.
(c) Offers him pancakes and coffee.
(d) Invites him to sit at the table for dinner.

5. How does Ezra treat his studies?
(a) He reads them dutifully.
(b) He refuses to have anything to do with them.
(c) He "devours" them.
(d) He is loathe to pick up a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ezra go back to his room?

2. What does Ezra ask about the puppy?

3. What happens when Muncie, Nyle and Ezra get to the house?

4. Why does Ezra command Nyle to close the curtain?

5. What does Nyle do to remind herself of Ezra?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Muncie try to prepare Nyle for Ezra's possible death?

2. How do you think Nyle may be compounding the rift in her friendship with Muncie in this chapter?

3. What gets Nyle thinking about her father and why is she mad at him (though, perhaps she unconscious of the reason)?

4. What is the difference in the way Nyle and Ezra interpret Nyle's history assignment?

5. How do you think the image of sheep is used by Ezra in this chapter?

6. How does Muncie respond to Nyle finally telling her about Ezra? Do you think Muncie's response is reasonable?

7. What are signs of Ezra's improvement?

8. Why is Ezra upset after Nyle reads her paper to him?

9. Why do you think Ezra stiffens up when they come close to the house and there is smoke?

10. How does Nyle and Gran's discussion about the Trent's future show Nyle's continued maturing?

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