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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Lies" Pages 62-78.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid about the Willenses?
(a) Whether Mrs, Willens was suspicious of all the time Mr. Willens spent away from home.
(b) Whether they got along with one another.
(c) Whether Mrs. Willens minded having her husband's clients at the house.
(d) How much money Enid thinks they had.

2. What does Enid suddenly understand while she is standing in the front room?
(a) That knowing Rupert's secret gives her great power over him.
(b) That she has wasted much of her life on romantic dreams.
(c) That people collaborate to keep some things silent in order to make the world easier to live in.
(d) That all people are guilty of making harmful choices, and that only God can judge them.

3. When, on page 36, Mrs. Quinn says "Good riddance to bad rubbish," to whom is she referring?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Olive.
(d) Enid.

4. What words best characterize Jimmy's crowded family household?
(a) Tense, anxious.
(b) Chaotic, boisterous.
(c) Rigid, orderly.
(d) Polite, optimistic.

5. What do the boys usually call one another when they are out at Jutland?
(a) Nothing.
(b) School nicknames.
(c) Family nicknames.
(d) Their first names.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What change at home is implied to be the reason that Bud finally tells his mother what happened?

3. When she is cleaning the Quinns' house in the middle of the night, what does Enid realize?

4. What does the overgrown plant life sometimes cause to happen at Jutland?

5. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?

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