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

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

3. What does Bud tell his little brother Doris is doing at the stove?
(a) Creating a magic love potion.
(b) Making a stew from rocks and dirt.
(c) Boiling old boots.
(d) Putting lumps in the mashed potatoes.

4. To what does the narrator compare Mr. Willens's arm, floating in the water?
(a) A dead fish.
(b) An animal tail.
(c) A mermaid's hair.
(d) Seaweed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?

2. What is the nickname that all three boys acquire as a result of this incident?

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

4. When the boys tell Captain Tervitt what they discovered, why does he not take them to make a police report?

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

(see the answer key)

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