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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 do Nyle and Ezra do every night?
(a) Their homework together at the kitchen table.
(b) Yoga to strengthen Nyle's body.
(c) Train Shep.
(d) Card wool.

2. Why is their dairy farm defunct?
(a) Because May and Lemmy are too old to work it.
(b) Because of a bad mudslide that killed most of the cows.
(c) Because the government confiscated most of their land under eminent domain laws.
(d) Because of contamination from radiation.

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

4. What does Nyle choose to do?
(a) Study Ben Franklin's comments on the Constitution.
(b) Read about how the atom was discovered.
(c) Write about Anne Frank.
(d) Memorize the Gettysburg Address.

5. Why does Nyle learn to cook?
(a) She doesn't like Gran's cooking.
(b) She likes the idea of being able to invite friends over for a meal she fixes.
(c) She loves food.
(d) Gran tells her that cooking is her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nyle do as Ezra walks into the kitchen?

2. What do Muncie and Nyle finally discuss?

3. What does Nyle see when she spots Ezra throughout the day?

4. How does Ezra react when his mask slips?

5. What does the puppy do on its second night with the sheep?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is admirable about Uncle Lemmy's choices after the nuclear disaster?

2. How does Nyle and Gran's discussion about the Trent's future show Nyle's continued maturing?

3. How does Muncie respond to Nyle finally telling her about Ezra? Do you think Muncie's response is reasonable?

4. What are signs of Ezra's improvement?

5. How do you think Nyle may be compounding the rift in her friendship with Muncie in this chapter?

6. How does Ezra seem to fare on his first day of school?

7. Why is Ezra upset after Nyle reads her paper to him?

8. What do you think indicates Ezra's change of feelings towards Nyle from a stranger to a friend, and perhaps even more? How does this contrast to Nyle's statement in chapter 13?

9. What happens that probably garners sympathy for Ripley on the part of the characters and readers?

10. How does Nyle show wisdom in her interaction with Ezra about the puppy?

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