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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Walley especially crowded on the day the boys are walking to the police station?
(a) There is a county fair happening.
(b) One of the mills is hiring and people have come from all over looking for work.
(c) The country people are in town because it is Saturday.
(d) It is Canada Day weekend.

2. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?
(a) Animals.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Adults.
(d) Stones.

3. What does Enid always bring with her when she nurses a female patient?
(a) Curlers.
(b) A hairbrush.
(c) Nail polish.
(d) Blue ribbons.

4. To what animal's teeth does Enid compare Mrs. Quinn's teeth?
(a) Horse.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Ferret.
(d) Shark.

5. How long has the doctor predicted Mrs. Quinn will live?
(a) To the end of spring.
(b) To the end of fall.
(c) Until sometime in the upcoming summer.
(d) Until sometime in the upcoming winter.

6. What do the boys buy at Paquette's Service Station?
(a) Candy.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Hot dogs.

7. To what does the narrator compare Mr. Willens's arm, floating in the water?
(a) An animal tail.
(b) A mermaid's hair.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) A dead fish.

8. What relation is Olive to Mrs. Quinn?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her daugher.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her sister-in-law.

9. Why are Lois and Sylvie not staying with Olive?
(a) They dislike her and refuse to stay with her.
(b) Mrs. Quinn refuses to let them go, even though she barely sees them.
(c) Her house is far enough away that they would need to change schools.
(d) Their father needs some time away from the responsibility of caring for them.

10. Whose sister rides by on a bike and insults the boys after they leave Mrs. Willens's house?
(a) Jimmy's.
(b) Bud's.
(c) Mrs. Willens's.
(d) Cece's.

11. What kind of business do the boys talk about setting up?
(a) Cattle ranching.
(b) Boat building.
(c) Gold mining.
(d) Muskrat trapping.

12. When Mrs. Willens sees the boys in front of her house, what does she do?
(a) Goes back in the house to get them some cookies.
(b) Asks them if they have seen her husband.
(c) Offers them some forsythia to take home to their mothers.
(d) Tells them to stop standing in the street staring.

13. What do the boys realize as they near the police station?
(a) They will have to make their report in front of a bunch of gossiping old men.
(b) They are no longer sure that they saw what they think they saw.
(c) They will be in trouble for waiting so long to go to the police.
(d) They would rather keep what they know a secret because they do not want Mrs. Willens to be upset.

14. What is the name of the town where the story begins?
(a) Walley.
(b) Tobermory.
(c) Yarmouth.
(d) Nelson.

15. What does Jimmy get embarrassed by as they walk downtown?
(a) His mother working in a shop window.
(b) Hearing people whispering about his father.
(c) The attention he gets from older girls.
(d) His ill-fitting and worn clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best description of the narrator's tone when the narrator is describing the boys' business plans?

2. When the boys tell Captain Tervitt what they discovered, why does he not take them to make a police report?

3. What is the "Death Trap" (7)?

4. What can be inferred from Enid's memories of girls at school who married and had children young?

5. What is Captain Tervitt's current job?

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