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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 is in the red box in the museum?
(a) Donations to keep the museum running.
(b) Porcelain insulators.
(c) Old photographs.
(d) Optometrist's instruments.

2. On page 44, what does Enid's mother compare Enid to?
(a) A politician.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A saint.
(d) A nun.

3. Why does the teacher bring Lois and Sylvie home from school?
(a) It looks like rain.
(b) School let out earlier than usual.
(c) They live too far to walk.
(d) The bus has broken down.

4. 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 all people are guilty of making harmful choices, and that only God can judge them.
(c) That people collaborate to keep some things silent in order to make the world easier to live in.
(d) That she has wasted much of her life on romantic dreams.

5. What is the tone of Rupert's question "Where are we going to bury his car?" (58)?
(a) Despairing.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Inquisitive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid ask the girls when they are all sitting outside in the sun together?

2. What is the Willens house known for?

3. What implication of her mother's is Enid shocked by in their hospital discussion about whether she should make the promise to her father?

4. What word does the narrator suggest describes the way "many adult faces" look to children (7)?

5. What is the souvenir cloth from?

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