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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 happens when they carry Mr. Willens's body outside?
(a) They almost drop his body coming down the porch steps.
(b) They hear the voices of nearby neighbors.
(c) The wind blows away the cloth around his head.
(d) They realize that blood is dropping onto the porch.

2. What does Enid tell Rupert about her second notebook?
(a) It is similar to the one that she keeps for the doctor, but it contains personal observations, as well.
(b) It is empty for now, but she will use it when she runs out of space in her first notebook.
(c) It is where she keeps herself organized with to-do lists and plans for the future.
(d) It is the notebook she has been using to teach the girls proper handwriting.

3. 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 unlikely to find a man her own age in Walley who is interested in her.
(c) She is a popular and attractive woman, but she has little interest in men.
(d) She is widely considered to be disagreeable and unattractive.

4. What question does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid about the Willenses?
(a) How much money Enid thinks they had.
(b) Whether they got along with one another.
(c) Whether Mrs. Willens minded having her husband's clients at the house.
(d) Whether Mrs, Willens was suspicious of all the time Mr. Willens spent away from home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the sentence: "Ice daggers shooting up behind their eyes and jabbing the tops of their skulls from the inside" (5)?

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 Cece cook for his and his mother's dinner?

4. When Mrs. Willens sees the boys in front of her house, what does she do?

5. What is the tone of Rupert's question "Where are we going to bury his car?" (58)?

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