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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nyle show Mrs. Trent the book about a boy in a train station?
(a) To get her approval.
(b) To suggest Mrs. Trent read the book to Ezra.
(c) To suggest Ezra is like the boy.
(d) To ask her if she has read it.

2. What does Nyle want to know?
(a) If Ezra has any chance to live.
(b) If the people nearby should have stayed or left.
(c) If her father died quickly.
(d) If Ezra and his mother should have left sooner.

3. What does Muncie say when Nyle asks her opinion about the people who used to live in Cookshire?
(a) Muncie's tone gets judgmental about the people sick with radiation.
(b) She says she thinks they all were moved to London.
(c) She expresses compassion for them.
(d) She says she didn't know any of them are sick.

4. What does a nurse do to Ezra?
(a) Inject him with gammaglobulin.
(b) Hook up an IV.
(c) Take his blood pressure.
(d) Tell him he is getting better.

5. What is not out as usual?
(a) The firestriker.
(b) A snack for Nyle.
(c) The afternoon paper.
(d) The log keeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brings up the topic of the nuclear accident?

2. Why doesn't I'll answer Muncie's question?

3. Who eventually comes out to greet Nyle?

4. What does Ezra do when Nyla introduces herself?

5. What does Mrs. Haskins assign the students to write?

(see the answer key)

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