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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. 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 an uncertain, unsteady way.
(b) In a gentle, calming way.
(c) In a violent, angry way.
(d) In a mechanical, jerking way.

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

3. How did Mr. D. M. Willens die?
(a) He had a heart attack.
(b) He drowned.
(c) He was poisoned.
(d) He was hit by a train.

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

5. When do the boys plan to go to the police?
(a) After dinner.
(b) Never.
(c) As soon as they return to town.
(d) In the morning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?

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

4. Who is the author of "The Love of a Good Woman"?

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

(see the answer key)

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