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

2. What does Enid do about Mrs. Quinn's "violent itching" (31)?
(a) Gives her oatmeal baths.
(b) Presses ice packs against her skin.
(c) Spreads medicated lotion on her skin.
(d) Wraps her hands so she cannot scratch.

3. What is the best description of the narrator's tone when the narrator is describing the boys' business plans?
(a) Critical.
(b) Respectful.
(c) Wry.
(d) Facetious.

4. What does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid to get her daughters to stop doing?
(a) Laughing loudly in the house.
(b) Coming in to visit her.
(c) Playing outdoors.
(d) Slamming the door.

5. For Enid, what is different about Mrs. Quinn from all of her previous patients?
(a) She does not want to help Mrs. Quinn.
(b) She thinks there is something suspicious about Mrs. Quinn's illness.
(c) She has never been treated so badly by a patient.
(d) She will be sad when Mrs. Quinn dies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Willens make an allusion to when she is talking with the boys?

3. What does Enid recall a patient doing with a willow platter she asked Enid to retrieve for her?

4. When Enid makes up her mind about nursing school, what question does her mother ask her, on page 40?

5. How old was Enid when her father made her promise to drop out of nursing school?

(see the answer key)

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