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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "our flyscreen door claps against the side of the house" (99)?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. What sends Charlie racing from his room when he awakens in Chapter Three?
(a) His fear of a paper wasp.
(b) His father's calls to breakfast.
(c) A date with Eliza.
(d) His mother's anger.

3. How does Jasper plan to buy himself some time to solve Laura's murder?
(a) He wants to bury her body in the river.
(b) He wants to run away while Charlie finds the killer.
(c) He wants to bury her body closer to town.
(d) He wants to turn himself in so the police can do their job.

4. What does Charlie call the terrible feeling in his stomach in Chapter Four?
(a) The brick.
(b) The hole.
(c) The spot.
(d) The knot.

5. In Chapter One, who has been murdered?
(a) Laura Wishart.
(b) Jeffrey Lu.
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) Eliza Wishart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Jasper suspect of killing Laura?

2. What research captures Charlie's imagination at the library?

3. Which of the following is an example of personification from Chapter Four?

4. How does the cricket coach handle the bullying toward Jeffrey?

5. What happens when Charlie and Eliza get to her house in Chapter Three?

(see the answer key)

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