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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Mistake" Pages 56-62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mrs. Willens sees the boys in front of her house, what does she do?
(a) Goes back in the house to get them some cookies.
(b) Tells them to stop standing in the street staring.
(c) Asks them if they have seen her husband.
(d) Offers them some forsythia to take home to their mothers.

2. Why does Rupert think of taking Mr. Willens to Jutland?
(a) It will give people the impression that he was headed out of town.
(b) It is a common place for people to have accidents.
(c) It will look like he got turned around in the dark and accidentally drove into the water.
(d) It is remote enough to delay the discovery of the body.

3. What do the attentions of the creamery manager at the Town Hall dance tell the reader about Enid?
(a) She is unlikely to find a man her own age in Walley who is interested in her.
(b) She is still too focused on her career to spend much time thinking about boyfriends.
(c) She is widely considered to be disagreeable and unattractive.
(d) She is a popular and attractive woman, but she has little interest in men.

4. What is the tone of Rupert's question "Where are we going to bury his car?" (58)?
(a) Sarcastic.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Inquisitive.
(d) Despairing.

5. For Enid, what is different about Mrs. Quinn from all of her previous patients?
(a) She does not want to help Mrs. Quinn.
(b) She has never been treated so badly by a patient.
(c) She thinks there is something suspicious about Mrs. Quinn's illness.
(d) She will be sad when Mrs. Quinn dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname that all three boys acquire as a result of this incident?

2. Why does the teacher bring Lois and Sylvie home from school?

3. What household task does Olive take care of for the Quinns?

4. What technique is used in the sentence, "Oh, Missus, would you like me to examine your eyes for you, just sit down here and just you relax and you just shut the one eye and keep the other one wide open" (62)?

5. What caused Jimmy's father's disability?

(see the answer key)

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