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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Nyla have to do if the wind shifts?
(a) Wear a radiation suit along with her mask.
(b) Help grandma move Mrs. Trent and Ezra.
(c) Get all the sheep into the barn.
(d) Leave behind all her treasures.

2. Who approaches Nyle as she is examining the sheep?
(a) Mr. Trent.
(b) Gran.
(c) Ripley Powers.
(d) Tyrus.

3. What does Nyle do after shrugging off her uneasy feeling?
(a) Feeds her pony.
(b) Goes and milks the cow.
(c) Continues to bring in the firewood.
(d) Goes and sews up the sheep's wounds.

4. 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.

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

6. Why does Nyle allow the strain in her and Muncie's friendship to continue?
(a) She isn't sure she wants Muncie as a friend anymore.
(b) She doesn't want to tell Muncie about Ezra and his mom.
(c) She thinks Muncie is the one at fault.
(d) She isn't aware of the strain.

7. What is Gran's response to Nyle's question?
(a) The routine.
(b) Sometimes it's just someone's time to go.
(c) Death is just another side to life.
(d) He was a sad man.

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

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

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

11. What does Ezra do when he sees the new puppy Nyle gets him?
(a) Names it Shep's girl.
(b) Immediately puts it in the bed with him.
(c) Says it's the best present he's ever had.
(d) Screams that it's radioactive.

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

13. Who is in the back room?
(a) Evacuees.
(b) Grandpa.
(c) Nyle's cousin.
(d) Nyle's father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nyle yelling at as the story begins?

2. Who comes on the t.v. to talk about the radiation accident?

3. Who does not answer Nyle's calls?

4. What does Nyla do with her mask after talking with Gran?

5. What does Ezra ask that Nyla does not know?

(see the answer keys)

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