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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 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.

2. What is the best description of the narrator's tone when the narrator is describing the boys' business plans?
(a) Respectful.
(b) Wry.
(c) Critical.
(d) Facetious.

3. As the children watch the hand in the water, the narrator notes, "It rode there tremulously and irresolutely" (7). How did the hand move?
(a) In a mechanical, jerking way.
(b) In an uncertain, unsteady way.
(c) In a gentle, calming way.
(d) In a violent, angry way.

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

5. What word does the narrator suggest describes the way "many adult faces" look to children (7)?
(a) Cartoonish.
(b) Intimidating.
(c) Grotesque.
(d) Disinterested.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals are most prominently featured in the description of the boys' walk to the river?

2. What is the name of the town where the story begins?

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

4. To what does the narrator compare a part of the retinoscope?

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

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