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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Heart Failure" Pages 44-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What implication of her mother's is Enid shocked by in their hospital discussion about whether she should make the promise to her father?
(a) Her mother implies that it does not matter what she tells her father, because he is no one to be bothered about disappointing.
(b) Her mother implies that it does not matter what she tells her father, as he will be dead soon.
(c) Her mother implies that it does not matter what she tells her father, as Enid never keeps her promises.
(d) Her mother implies that it does not matter what she tells her father, because he does not really care about Enid.

2. What does Mrs. Willens make an allusion to when she is talking with the boys?
(a) World War II.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Rembrandt.

3. When do the boys plan to go to the police?
(a) As soon as they return to town.
(b) In the morning.
(c) Never.
(d) After dinner.

4. Where does Jimmy's mother work?
(a) Paquette's Service Station.
(b) Honeker's Department Store.
(c) The Duke of Cumberland.
(d) Shervill's Dairy Bar.

5. What kind of a person does Enid's mother make her promise not to marry?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A mill worker.
(d) An insurance agent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rupert meet his wife?

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?

3. What first causes the boys to notice the submerged car?

4. What is Cece's mother wearing when he gets home?

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

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