2. What do Ezra and Nyle feel as they walk back to the house?
(a) Elation.
(b) A little embarrassed.
(c) A deeper connection.
(d) Sadness.

3. What makes Nyle anger that she runs back to the house?
(a) Thinking about her father.
(b) Seeing a dead squirrel with radiation boils.
(c) Thinking about the government's lies.
(d) Seeing a little fawn that is obviously suffering from radiation poisoning.

4. What does Mr. Perry tell Nyle?
(a) That she is eligible for a full scholarship to college.
(b) That he knows about the evacuees at the house.
(c) That she is the valdictorian of the class.
(d) That she can get into the new A & M college because of her grades.

5. What book does Ezra choose out of Nyle's collection?
(a) Mr. Wrinkle and the Science Experiment.
(b) Slake's Limbo.
(c) Hope in the Green Future.
(d) The Stand of the Mohicans.

6. What does Nyle wish about her book collection?
(a) That it had more adventure and less romance novels.
(b) That she had all the Harry Potter books.
(c) That it was more intellectual.
(d) That it had as many volumes as Muncie's collection has.

7. Who does Nyle talk about who was a carpenter?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Mr. Harris.
(d) Her father.

8. What does Nyle like?
(a) The crispness of the air.
(b) The two of them holding hands.
(c) The smell of green wood burning.
(d) The smell of hay burning.

9. What happens when Muncie, Nyle and Ezra get to the house?
(a) Nyle begins sobbing.
(b) Mrs. Trent sobs at the sight of Ezra.
(c) Gran gets her shotgun out and goes to the truck.
(d) Gran and Mrs. Trent nurse Ezra and the girls go up to clean up.

10. What does Nyle do when the two arrive at school?
(a) Takes Ezra to where he needs to register.
(b) Tells Ezra she'll see him at lunch.
(c) Takes Ezra to meet the tennis coach because he wants to play tennis.
(d) Introduces Ezra as her brother to everyone.

11. What does Nyle do as she is left alone?
(a) Just sits on a stump staring at the house.
(b) Decides to go talk to Ripley.
(c) Watches t.v.
(d) Calls the sheriff.

12. Why does Ezra command Nyle to close the curtain?
(a) He does not command that.
(b) The fire department sirens sound.
(c) The glare makes it hard to read.
(d) The clouds gathering are too depressing.

13. Why doesn't Nyle and Gran celebrate Christmas this year?
(a) Because they think it's gotten too commercialized.
(b) They never celebrate Christmas.
(c) Because they have no money.
(d) Because of the power plant accident and the Trents never do.

14. How does Ezra treat his studies?
(a) He "devours" them.
(b) He is loathe to pick up a book.
(c) He refuses to have anything to do with them.
(d) He reads them dutifully.

15. What do Gran, Miriam, Ezra and Nyle decide to do?
(a) Go out to eat.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Play monopoly.
(d) Attend a concert at the school.