View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Jutland" Pages 16-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase: "feel the painful recapture of their bodies by their startled blood" (5)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Synechdoche.

2. What dessert does Bud get in trouble for picking at before dinner?
(a) Carrot cake.
(b) Rhubarb pie.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Apple pie.

3. What job does Cece take over for his mother when he gets home?
(a) Holding the baby.
(b) Mopping the floor.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Laundry.

4. Why do cars honk at the boys as they are crossing the bridge?
(a) The boys are not supposed to be on that bridge at all.
(b) The boys are in the way of people trying to get to work.
(c) The boys are walking on a dangerous part of the bridge.
(d) The boys are well-known in town and people are honking to say "hi."

5. What does the narrator say is the problem with Jimmy's grandmother's cooking?
(a) Her taste buds have gotten less sensitive and she over-salts everything.
(b) She makes unnecessary changes in recipes to save money.
(c) She is not used to cooking for so many people and there is never enough food.
(d) She is inattentive and careless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bud tell his little brother Doris is doing at the stove?

2. What is the best description of the narrator's tone when the narrator is describing the boys' business plans?

3. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?

4. What strange thing does Cece's father do when he is in a violent mood?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 355 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample