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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. Who gave Lois and Sylvie their blocks, coloring books, and paper dolls?
(a) Mrs. Willens.
(b) Mrs. Box.
(c) Olive.
(d) Enid's mother.

2. Besides "lazy," what is another word that Bud might use to describe his sisters?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Vain.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Apathetic.

3. What reason does Enid give for her and her friends constant humiliation of Rupert when they were in school?
(a) They did it because they could.
(b) They did it because they were insecure themselves.
(c) Rupert was a bully to younger boys.
(d) Rupert came from a family no one liked.

4. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?
(a) There is already too much going on in each of their houses.
(b) The boys enjoy knowing something that no one else knows.
(c) All three boys are a little bit afraid of their parents.
(d) The three boys began to doubt their memories once they were separated.

5. What is unusual about the weather during the summer Enid is caring for Mrs. Quinn?
(a) It is cold and dry.
(b) It is very hot and dry.
(c) It is very hot and wet.
(d) It is cold and wet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid do about Mrs. Quinn's "violent itching" (31)?

2. When Enid gets up in the middle of the night to work, she thinks that it is the best way to be "penitent" (52). What does this mean she is trying to do?

3. What does Enid recall a patient doing with a willow platter she asked Enid to retrieve for her?

4. Where does Jimmy's mother work?

5. Why are Lois and Sylvie not staying with Olive?

(see the answer key)

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