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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. Why does Jimmy's great-aunt Mary live with his family?
(a) She is needed to take care of the children.
(b) Her eyesight is failing.
(c) It is her house.
(d) She has social anxiety.

2. Why is Colonel Box so cool and disinterested toward Jimmy?
(a) Colonel Box has the same last name but they are not actually related.
(b) Colonel Box disapproves of Jimmy's parents' marriage.
(c) Jimmy is well-known as a troublemaker.
(d) Jimmy did not keep the secret that Colonel Box trusted him with.

3. Why does the teacher bring Lois and Sylvie home from school?
(a) They live too far to walk.
(b) It looks like rain.
(c) School let out earlier than usual.
(d) The bus has broken down.

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

5. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?
(a) Innuendo.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Colloquialism.
(d) Antimetabole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation is Olive to Mrs. Quinn?

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

3. Where does Jimmy's mother work?

4. Who gave Lois and Sylvie their blocks, coloring books, and paper dolls?

5. What does Mrs. Quinn realize when she gets the keys from Mr. Willens's pocket?

(see the answer key)

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