2. Are is Nyla doing at Muncie's house?
(a) Carding wool.
(b) Washing Muncie's pony.
(c) Playing hopscotch.
(d) Braiding Muncie's pony's tail.

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

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

5. How is it clear that Ezra has improved?
(a) He is able to carry on a conversation.
(b) His breathing is not labored.
(c) His coloring is better.
(d) He has a good appetite.

6. What do the girls do in Radio Shack?
(a) Play with the radio operated cars.
(b) Watch the t.v.
(c) Play a video game.
(d) Look at an ipod.

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

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

9. What does Mr. Harris do?
(a) Milks the cow to make ice cream.
(b) Plays the banjo to entertain the girls as they card wool.
(c) Builds a fire for Nyle and Muncie.
(d) Tells Nyle and Muncie a scary story as they card wool.

10. What does Nyla decide she can do to help Ezra?
(a) Play checkers with him.
(b) Read to him.
(c) Draw pictures of her dog.
(d) Sing to him.

11. Where do the girls encounter some male classmates?
(a) At the movies.
(b) In the mall.
(c) At a restaurant for lunch.
(d) At the arcade.

12. Who goes with Nyle to watch the meteor shower?
(a) No one; there is no meteor shower.
(b) Caleb.
(c) Muncie.
(d) Gran.

13. What does Nyla not want to tell Muncie?
(a) About Ezra and Mrs. Trent.
(b) That she doesn't want Muncie to come over anymore.
(c) About how Nyla's father died.
(d) That she is going to the dance with a boy.

14. What does Ezra do when Nyle goes to pull back the window curtain.
(a) He gets up to go look outside.
(b) He hides under the covers.
(c) He asks if she made the curtains.
(d) He asks her not to do so.

15. What is the most interesting aspect of the weather right now?
(a) Snow has fallen.
(b) It has hailed golf-sized balls.
(c) It is warm and sunny.
(d) It is unseasonably warm.