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

2. What can be inferred from Enid's father's beliefs about nurses and their potential as wives?
(a) He thinks that what is most important is for Enid to get married.
(b) He understands what a career means to his daughter.
(c) He is far more old-fashioned than most men of his generation.
(d) He thinks that men of Enid's generation are foolish in their prejudices.

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

4. Besides his cooking skills, what else does Cece not tell the other boys about?
(a) His mother's illness.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) His father's drinking.
(d) His hiding place.

5. Why is Colonel Box so cool and disinterested toward Jimmy?
(a) Jimmy is well-known as a troublemaker.
(b) Colonel Box has the same last name but they are not actually related.
(c) Jimmy did not keep the secret that Colonel Box trusted him with.
(d) Colonel Box disapproves of Jimmy's parents' marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid always bring with her when she nurses a female patient?

2. In high school, what was more important to Enid than having boyfriends?

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

4. Where did Rupert meet his wife?

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

(see the answer key)

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