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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. How does Mrs. Trent disappoint her parents?
(a) By converting to Roman Catholicism.
(b) By moving away from Israel.
(c) By marrying too young.
(d) By marrying outside the faith.

2. What does Ezra say about the puppy?
(a) It is going to be an awfully large dog.
(b) Its fur is the same color as his dog that died.
(c) It seems to like Ezra already.
(d) Ezra does not want Nyle to bring him anything to love.

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

4. Of what does Mrs. Trent start showing symptoms?
(a) The flu.
(b) Radiation poisoning.
(c) Stress-induced anxiety.
(d) Fear for Ezra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the personal question Nyle asks of Ezra?

2. Why does Nyle allow the strain in her and Muncie's friendship to continue?

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

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

5. What does Mr. Harris do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Ezra means when he says he feels like a phoenix?

2. What is evidence of Ezra's continue improvement?

3. What does Nyle see as she approaches the farmhouse and what might it foreshadow?

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

5. What adds to the tension between the Muncie and Nyle?

6. Describe Nyle's attempts to scare the neighbor's dog, Tyrus, away from the sheep. Why does Nyle want Tyrus to get off her property?

7. Describe Ezra's response to Nyle when she comes to read to him.

8. What emotion is Nyle experiencing and what is Gran's advice about the emotion? Do you think it is wise advice?

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

10. What else occurs at the beginning of this chapter that gives Nyle a sense of unease?

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