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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Heart Failure" Pages 31-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Fragment for effect.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Juxtaposition.

2. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?
(a) All three boys are a little bit afraid of their parents.
(b) There is already too much going on in each of their houses.
(c) The three boys began to doubt their memories once they were separated.
(d) The boys enjoy knowing something that no one else knows.

3. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?
(a) A gold coin.
(b) A pack of cigarettes.
(c) A cow's hipbone.
(d) Shell casings from a rifle.

4. What word does the narrator suggest describes the way "many adult faces" look to children (7)?
(a) Grotesque.
(b) Disinterested.
(c) Intimidating.
(d) Cartoonish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cece cook for his and his mother's dinner?

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

3. Besides his cooking skills, what else does Cece not tell the other boys about?

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

5. Why does it bother Cece when his mother gives him money?

(see the answer key)

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