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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 animals are most prominently featured in the description of the boys' walk to the river?
(a) Birds.
(b) Squirrels.
(c) Coyotes.
(d) Rabbits.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the boys plan to go to the police?

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

3. 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)?

4. What is the "Death Trap" (7)?

5. What does the overgrown plant life sometimes cause to happen at Jutland?

(see the answer key)

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