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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Muncie and Nyle do one day after school?
(a) Visit Ezra so he can meet Muncie.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Ride horses.
(d) Fix fences.

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

4. What does Gran not do as she usually does?
(a) Greet Nyle with a hug.
(b) Open the front door.
(c) Calls from the pantry for Nyle to wash up.
(d) Sit in the rocker for a cup of pre-supper coffee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nyla decide she can do to help Ezra?

2. What does Ezra now have the strength to do?

3. What does Nyla monitor as the days pass by?

4. What is not out as usual?

5. Why does Nyle show Mrs. Trent the book about a boy in a train station?

Short Essay Questions

1. Contrast the back room how it was used when Nyle is small versus in the story now.

2. Would you have responded the same way as Nyle when Muncie asks her what is going on at Nyle's house?

3. How does Mr. Sobel get Nyle thinking about radiation poisoning and why is the topic particularly applicable?

4. What is ironic about Ezra's feeling about the back room?

5. Describe Nyle's first encounter with Ezra.

6. What does Mrs. Haskins assign her students to do and do you think this is mixing education with politics?

7. Describe Nyle and Muncie's encounter with Ripley and what you think the encounter may foreshadow.

8. The issue of a drawn curtain occurs in this chapter, in previous chapters, and in future chapters. How does this issue come up in this chapter and venture a guess as to the significance of the incident.

9. Mrs. Trent reveals that she disappoints her parents by marrying out of the faith and that she is paying the price now. Do you think this is true?

10. What does Nyle ask her Gran about sheep farming and what is Gran's response? Does Nyle's response surprise you?

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