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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 kind of a person does Enid's mother make her promise not to marry?
(a) A mill worker.
(b) A farmer.
(c) An insurance agent.
(d) A doctor.

2. To what does the narrator compare a part of the retinoscope?
(a) A full moon.
(b) A shark's tooth.
(c) An elf's head.
(d) A mushroom.

3. What does Mrs. Willens make an allusion to when she is talking with the boys?
(a) Gaul.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) World War II.

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 is deaf and cannot hear them.
(d) He wants to notify Mrs. Willens first.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Death Trap" (7)?

2. What does the narrator say is the problem with Jimmy's grandmother's cooking?

3. When do the boys plan to go to the police?

4. 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)?

5. What do the boys buy at Paquette's Service Station?

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