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

2. 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)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Fragment for effect.
(d) Simile.

3. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?
(a) A pack of cigarettes.
(b) A cow's hipbone.
(c) A gold coin.
(d) Shell casings from a rifle.

4. To what does the narrator compare the opthalmoscope?
(a) A broken mirror.
(b) A snake.
(c) A kaleidoscope.
(d) A snowman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys usually call one another when they are out at Jutland?

2. What is in the red box in the museum?

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

4. Who is with Cece Ferns at the river in the narrative present?

5. What do the boys think Jutland is named after?

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