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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. As the children watch the hand in the water, the narrator notes, "It rode there tremulously and irresolutely" (7). How did the hand move?
(a) In a mechanical, jerking way.
(b) In an uncertain, unsteady way.
(c) In a violent, angry way.
(d) In a gentle, calming way.

2. What is the nickname that all three boys acquire as a result of this incident?
(a) Detective.
(b) Deadman.
(c) Killer.
(d) Fisherman.

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

4. What is implied when the boys kick and stomp the sand?
(a) They are trying to kick sand in each other's faces.
(b) They are trying to destroy any turtle nests that might be there.
(c) They are trying to put out the beginning of a wildfire.
(d) They are trying to hide their own tracks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Rupert going when he tells Enid he will be away for a couple of days?

2. What does Rupert buy for the sickroom to make his wife more comfortable?

3. When Enid gets up in the middle of the night to work, she thinks that it is the best way to be "penitent" (52). What does this mean she is trying to do?

4. What unnerving sound does Enid hear from the sickroom when Rupert is there saying goodbye to his wife before he leaves town?

5. What does Cece's mother say she can smell on him?

(see the answer key)

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