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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Mistake" Pages 56-62.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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)?
(a) Innuendo.
(b) Colloquialism.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Asyndeton.

3. What does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid to get her daughters to stop doing?
(a) Coming in to visit her.
(b) Laughing loudly in the house.
(c) Slamming the door.
(d) Playing outdoors.

4. Where does Mrs. Quinn say she thinks her husband goes after he visits her?
(a) To his sister's house.
(b) To the Duke of Cumberland.
(c) Back to work.
(d) To pick up other women.

5. Who is the author of "The Love of a Good Woman"?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Eudora Welty.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Alice Munroe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Mr. D. M. Willens die?

3. What does Bud tell his little brother Doris is doing at the stove?

4. What does Enid begin to have nightmares about?

5. What relation is Olive to Mrs. Quinn?

(see the answer key)

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