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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 phrase: "feel the painful recapture of their bodies by their startled blood" (5)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Synesthesia.

2. What change at home is implied to be the reason that Bud finally tells his mother what happened?
(a) Bud's mother is worried about where her own husband is.
(b) Bud's mother tells him he cannot go out to Jutland anymore.
(c) The rest of Bud's family is out of the house.
(d) Bud's sisters call him names and say that he does not understand the real world.

3. What words best characterize Jimmy's crowded family household?
(a) Polite, optimistic.
(b) Chaotic, boisterous.
(c) Tense, anxious.
(d) Rigid, orderly.

4. What caused Jimmy's father's disability?
(a) A car crash.
(b) An accident at work.
(c) He was born with it.
(d) Polio.

5. What can be inferred from Enid's memories of girls at school who married and had children young?
(a) Being a wife and mother is a difficult life and probably not worth striving for.
(b) Men will do nearly anything to oppress the women they claim to love.
(c) Professional opportunities for women are much too limited.
(d) People often misunderstand the nature of their own ambitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Cece take over for his mother when he gets home?

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

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

4. What does Jimmy get embarrassed by as they walk downtown?

5. How do the boys know whose car they are looking at in the water?

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