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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. What is revealed in the paragraph about Mrs. Quinn's wish to smash Mr. Willens's instruments?
(a) She had hated Mr. Willens since she was a child.
(b) She was toying with Mr. Willens to make her husband jealous.
(c) She was really the one who was manipulating him.
(d) She had some kind of sexual relationship with him.

2. Who is with Cece Ferns at the river in the narrative present?
(a) Charlie Evans and Jimmy Box.
(b) Ralph Diller and Charlie Evans.
(c) Jimmy Box and Bud Salter.
(d) Bud Salter and Ralph Diller.

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

4. What relation is Olive to Mrs. Quinn?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her daugher.
(d) Her sister-in-law.

5. Why is Walley especially crowded on the day the boys are walking to the police station?
(a) There is a county fair happening.
(b) The country people are in town because it is Saturday.
(c) It is Canada Day weekend.
(d) One of the mills is hiring and people have come from all over looking for work.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What does Enid's mother believe is true about Enid?

3. What is implied in the sentence, "The next day Mrs. Quinn's strength came flooding back, in that unnatural and deceptive way that Enid had seen once or twice in others" (56)?

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

5. What small present does Rupert bring for Enid?

(see the answer key)

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