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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nyle refuse Muncie's invitation?
(a) She is not allowed cake before dinner.
(b) She wants to go to the exhibit with a boy she likes who asks her.
(c) She has to bring in the sheep after the snowfall.
(d) She has to go home to care for Ezra.

2. What do Muncie and Nyle do after working in the pasture?
(a) Have a discussion about Ezra.
(b) Build a snow fort.
(c) Walk to town for hot chocolate.
(d) Go to spin wool at Muncie's house.

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

4. What is the only thing Ezra says to Nyle?
(a) "I want my mommie."
(b) "Who are you?"
(c) "I want to go home."
(d) "I had a dog."

5. Who eventually comes out to greet Nyle?
(a) Mr. Trent.
(b) Baylor.
(c) Gran.
(d) Caleb.

6. What does Nyle notice when she goes downstairs in her home?
(a) That her grandma is cooking.
(b) That her father is in the kitchen.
(c) That Muncie is in the foyer.
(d) That the back bedroom door is open.

7. What do the teachers and principal monitor?
(a) The impact on the students' academic progress by the crisis.
(b) The students' psychological health.
(c) The students' physical health.
(d) The radiation levels.

8. What does Nyla monitor as the days pass by?
(a) The sheep's progress who was hurt by Tyrus.
(b) The coming of Christmas.
(c) The arrival of winter.
(d) Ezra's non-movement.

9. How does Nyle try to entice Ezra out of his room?
(a) With the promise of a hay ride.
(b) By offering to let him watch an ewe have her lamb.
(c) With the promise of watching a meteor shower.
(d) By offering him a ride on her horse.

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

11. What is different about Muncie?
(a) She is a genius.
(b) She is Chinese.
(c) She is physically deformed.
(d) She is behind her class group by three years.

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

13. What does Nyla notice about Ezra when she enters his room?
(a) That he is pink on a lot of his skin.
(b) That he seems to be asleep.
(c) That he is breathing is so quiet she can't hear it.
(d) That the shape of his eyes are unusual.

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

15. What does the principal announce on the day it rains?
(a) That the leak is contained and the air is good.
(b) That the air is still radioactive and not to remove their masks.
(c) That the rain will contaminate the groundwater.
(d) That the rain will wash away any contamination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about Nyle's house that makes her stop?

2. What does Nyle wonder about her mask?

3. Of what does Mrs. Trent start showing symptoms?

4. What does Mr. Harris do?

5. What happens when the girls accidentally rile Ripley?

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