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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Jutland" Pages 16-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Walley especially crowded on the day the boys are walking to the police station?
(a) There is a county fair happening.
(b) One of the mills is hiring and people have come from all over looking for work.
(c) The country people are in town because it is Saturday.
(d) It is Canada Day weekend.

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

3. What do the boys think Jutland is named after?
(a) The ruins of a dam across the river.
(b) The peninsular shape of the land.
(c) A famous WWI battle.
(d) The town founder's birthplace.

4. What does Cece's mother usually do after their midday meal?
(a) Go back to bed.
(b) Go to work.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Go to her sister's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do cars honk at the boys as they are crossing the bridge?

2. What do the boys realize as they near the police station?

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. Why is Colonel Box so cool and disinterested toward Jimmy?

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

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