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

2. 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 walking on a dangerous part of the bridge.
(c) The boys are not supposed to be on that bridge at all.
(d) The boys are in the way of people trying to get to work.

3. Who is with Cece Ferns at the river in the narrative present?
(a) Bud Salter and Ralph Diller.
(b) Charlie Evans and Jimmy Box.
(c) Jimmy Box and Bud Salter.
(d) Ralph Diller and Charlie Evans.

4. To what does the narrator compare the opthalmoscope?
(a) A broken mirror.
(b) A kaleidoscope.
(c) A snake.
(d) A snowman.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bud tell his little brother Doris is doing at the stove?

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?

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

5. What words best characterize Jimmy's crowded family household?

(see the answer key)

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