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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 first causes the boys to notice the submerged car?
(a) The trunk sticking up out of the water.
(b) The air bubbles surfacing around it.
(c) The blue color in the water.
(d) The motion of the dead man's arm.

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

3. What do the boys realize as they near the police station?
(a) They are no longer sure that they saw what they think they saw.
(b) They will be in trouble for waiting so long to go to the police.
(c) They will have to make their report in front of a bunch of gossiping old men.
(d) They would rather keep what they know a secret because they do not want Mrs. Willens to be upset.

4. How does Mrs. Quinn seem after her husband's visits?
(a) Dissatisfied.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Agitated.
(d) Comforted.

5. How long has the doctor predicted Mrs. Quinn will live?
(a) Until sometime in the upcoming summer.
(b) To the end of spring.
(c) To the end of fall.
(d) Until sometime in the upcoming winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is with Cece Ferns at the river in the narrative present?

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

3. What does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid to get her daughters to stop doing?

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

5. What reason does Enid give for her and her friends constant humiliation of Rupert when they were in school?

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