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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. What does the narrator say is the problem with Jimmy's grandmother's cooking?
(a) She is not used to cooking for so many people and there is never enough food.
(b) Her taste buds have gotten less sensitive and she over-salts everything.
(c) She is inattentive and careless.
(d) She makes unnecessary changes in recipes to save money.

2. What does Jimmy get embarrassed by as they walk downtown?
(a) The attention he gets from older girls.
(b) His mother working in a shop window.
(c) Hearing people whispering about his father.
(d) His ill-fitting and worn clothing.

3. What do the boys buy at Paquette's Service Station?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Hot dogs.
(c) Candy.
(d) Cigarettes.

4. When the boys tell Captain Tervitt what they discovered, why does he not take them to make a police report?
(a) He is the one who killed Mr. Willens.
(b) He does not believe them.
(c) He wants to notify Mrs. Willens first.
(d) He is deaf and cannot hear them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men in town call the boys when they are in a good mood and want to seem friendly?

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

3. What strange thing does Cece's father do when he is in a violent mood?

4. Besides "lazy," what is another word that Bud might use to describe his sisters?

5. Whose sister rides by on a bike and insults the boys after they leave Mrs. Willens's house?

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