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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What research captures Charlie's imagination at the library?
(a) Research on killers throughout history.
(b) The truth about Mad Jack Lionel.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) Corrigan's history of serial killers.

2. Why might Silvey use curse words in developing the relationship between Jeffrey and Charlie?
(a) Silvey is attempting to be sensationalistic.
(b) Silvey wants to show how troubled the boys are.
(c) This use of vernacular sets them up as typical adolescent boys trying to be tough.
(d) The vernacular is used as personification.

3. What clue does Jasper find at Mad Jack's that seems to confirm the man's role in Laura's death?
(a) A typed confession.
(b) Weapons stored in the garage.
(c) A car etched with the word "sorry."
(d) What looks like a shallow grave.

4. What does Eliza tell her mother she must do for Eliza to reveal where Laura's body is?
(a) Come forward with all information about her husband.
(b) Turn herself in.
(c) Tell Eliza everything she knows about Laura's death.
(d) Run away to New York with Eliza.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wesley claim to do each night in his study?

2. Why does Charlie most admire Batman?

3. Why were Rosie and Jack in the car on the day of the crash?

4. What murderer does Charlie NOT read about?

5. What does Charlie's father's silence in Chapter Three remind Charlie of?

(see the answer key)

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