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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 do the attentions of the creamery manager at the Town Hall dance tell the reader about Enid?
(a) She is a popular and attractive woman, but she has little interest in men.
(b) She is unlikely to find a man her own age in Walley who is interested in her.
(c) She is still too focused on her career to spend much time thinking about boyfriends.
(d) She is widely considered to be disagreeable and unattractive.

2. When Mrs. Willens sees the boys in front of her house, what does she do?
(a) Goes back in the house to get them some cookies.
(b) Tells them to stop standing in the street staring.
(c) Asks them if they have seen her husband.
(d) Offers them some forsythia to take home to their mothers.

3. What do the boys plan to brag about when they return from swimming at Jutland?
(a) That they went swimming above the dam instead of below it.
(b) That they swam when there was still some snow on the ground.
(c) That they found a dead body.
(d) That they swam farther out into the river than any of the other boys have before.

4. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?
(a) Animals.
(b) Stones.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Adults.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Lois and Sylvie not staying with Olive?

2. Enid dislikes "this body that she had to wash and powder and placate" (38). In this context, what does "placate" mean?

3. What kind of business do the boys talk about setting up?

4. What word does the narrator suggest describes the way "many adult faces" look to children (7)?

5. To what animal's teeth does Enid compare Mrs. Quinn's teeth?

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