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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Introduction and "Jutland" Pages 3-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the overgrown plant life sometimes cause to happen at Jutland?
(a) The thick underbrush sometimes catches fire.
(b) Hikers do not always see bears in time to get away.
(c) Children sometimes get lost in the area.
(d) The turnaround for cars gets too overgrown to use.

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

3. What kind of business do the boys talk about setting up?
(a) Cattle ranching.
(b) Boat building.
(c) Gold mining.
(d) Muskrat trapping.

4. What first causes the boys to notice the submerged car?
(a) The trunk sticking up out of the water.
(b) The blue color in the water.
(c) The air bubbles surfacing around it.
(d) The motion of the dead man's arm.

5. What is implied when the boys kick and stomp the sand?
(a) They are trying to hide their own tracks.
(b) They are trying to kick sand in each other's faces.
(c) They are trying to destroy any turtle nests that might be there.
(d) They are trying to put out the beginning of a wildfire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Cece take over for his mother when he gets home?

2. To what does the narrator compare Mr. Willens's arm, floating in the water?

3. How do the boys know whose car they are looking at in the water?

4. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?

5. What is Cece's mother wearing when he gets home?

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