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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. Besides nursing, what other career does Enid consider when she is younger?
(a) Being an architect.
(b) Being a missionary.
(c) Being a doctor.
(d) Being a teacher.

2. How old was Enid when her father made her promise to drop out of nursing school?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 24.
(d) 22.

3. Why are the boys staring at the Willens house?
(a) They are wondering if Mrs. Willens will be angry at them for waiting so long to go to the police.
(b) They have begun to suspect that Mrs. Willens has something to do with her husband's death.
(c) It has only just occurred to them that Mr. Willens's death will be terrible for his wife.
(d) It is hard for them to understand how it can look exactly as usual when Mr. Willens is dead.

4. Enid dislikes "this body that she had to wash and powder and placate" (38). In this context, what does "placate" mean?
(a) Soothe.
(b) Massage.
(c) Manipulate.
(d) Examine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid's mother believe is true about Enid?

2. To what does the narrator compare Mr. Willens's arm, floating in the water?

3. What does Cece's mother say she can smell on him?

4. What animals are most prominently featured in the description of the boys' walk to the river?

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

(see the answer key)

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