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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What surprises Nyle when she goes to give Ezra a lesson on sheep farming?
(a) He is upright leaning on canes.
(b) He has a present for her.
(c) Ezra is at a table working a jigsaw puzzle.
(d) He is looking out the window.

3. Who is Nyle yelling at as the story begins?
(a) Phoebe.
(b) Muncie.
(c) Tyrus.
(d) Ripley.

4. What does Ezra do when Nyla introduces herself?
(a) He turns away from her.
(b) He blinks, nods and then closes his eyes again.
(c) He sits up and asks her what the book is that she's carrying.
(d) He says hello and tells her his name.

5. What does Mrs. Trent do when she comes into the room where Nyla and Ezra are?
(a) Mrs. Trent starts crying.
(b) Mrs. Trent kisses her son and says a prayer for him.
(c) Mrs. Trent tells Nyla Ezra is actually her nephew.
(d) Mrs. Trent lays her hand on Nyla's head and blesses her.

6. Who does Nyle invite along?
(a) Muncie.
(b) Ripley.
(c) No one.
(d) Ezra.

7. What happens when the girls accidentally rile Ripley?
(a) He walks away.
(b) He says he's going to go talk to Mr. Harris.
(c) He throws a snowball and hits Muncie hard in the stomach.
(d) He says he's going to sic the dog on them.

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

9. What does Nyle think about her science lesson?
(a) That there were plenty of fruit flies on the bananas back home.
(b) That she didn't think zygots were so interesting.
(c) That she hated the smell of sulfur.
(d) That it would have been better not to experience it firsthand.

10. Where has Mrs. Haskins been?
(a) In bed ill.
(b) On personal leave.
(c) At a teacher's convention.
(d) Out of the country.

11. What does the person want?
(a) He wants to learn more about the sheep.
(b) He wants Muncie to come home.
(c) His dog, Tyrus, is missing again.
(d) She wants the girls to come in for lunch.

12. Who defends Muncie before Nyle has the chance to do so?
(a) Gran.
(b) Dan.
(c) Bob.
(d) Muncie.

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

14. What do the girls do as they approach the farmhouse?
(a) Play a game with stones.
(b) Tell a joke about Ripley.
(c) Take the sheep to the barn.
(d) Go their separate ways.

15. Who comes on the t.v. to talk about the radiation accident?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) The Surgeon General.
(d) The Energy Secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Harris do?

2. What does Ezra do when Nyle goes to pull back the window curtain.

3. What does Ezra say he feels like?

4. Of what does Ezra's speaking just once remind Mrs. Trent?

5. What does Nyla decide is one of the things she needs to do?

(see the answer keys)

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