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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Heart Failure" Pages 44-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy get embarrassed by as they walk downtown?
(a) The attention he gets from older girls.
(b) His ill-fitting and worn clothing.
(c) His mother working in a shop window.
(d) Hearing people whispering about his father.

2. What does Cece's mother usually do after their midday meal?
(a) Go to work.
(b) Go back to bed.
(c) Go to her sister's.
(d) Go to church.

3. Where is Rupert going when he tells Enid he will be away for a couple of days?
(a) To help his brother bring in his crops.
(b) To buy next year's seed.
(c) To visit his mother, who is also ill.
(d) To a stock auction.

4. When do the boys plan to go to the police?
(a) In the morning.
(b) As soon as they return to town.
(c) Never.
(d) After dinner.

5. Who is the author of "The Love of a Good Woman"?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Alice Munroe.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Eudora Welty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?

2. Why does it bother Cece when his mother gives him money?

3. Whose sister rides by on a bike and insults the boys after they leave Mrs. Willens's house?

4. What does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid to get her daughters to stop doing?

5. What do the boys buy at Paquette's Service Station?

(see the answer key)

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