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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the men in town call the boys when they are in a good mood and want to seem friendly?
(a) Sirs.
(b) Young fellows.
(c) Boys.
(d) Lads.

3. 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 hide their own tracks.
(c) They are trying to put out the beginning of a wildfire.
(d) They are trying to destroy any turtle nests that might be there.

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

5. What reason does Enid give for her and her friends constant humiliation of Rupert when they were in school?
(a) They did it because they could.
(b) Rupert came from a family no one liked.
(c) They did it because they were insecure themselves.
(d) Rupert was a bully to younger boys.

6. How do the boys know whose car they are looking at in the water?
(a) They can see the license plate.
(b) They can see the dead man's face.
(c) The dead man's wallet is in the weeds by the shore.
(d) It has a distinctive color and shape.

7. Who gave Lois and Sylvie their blocks, coloring books, and paper dolls?
(a) Olive.
(b) Enid's mother.
(c) Mrs. Box.
(d) Mrs. Willens.

8. What is Cece's mother wearing when he gets home?
(a) A red wig.
(b) A church hat.
(c) A bathrobe.
(d) A raincoat.

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

10. What is Captain Tervitt's current job?
(a) Ship's captain.
(b) None--he is retired.
(c) Special constable.
(d) Town clerk.

11. What does Mrs. Willens make an allusion to when she is talking with the boys?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Mozart.
(d) World War II.

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

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

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

15. What does the narrator say is the problem with Jimmy's grandmother's cooking?
(a) Her taste buds have gotten less sensitive and she over-salts everything.
(b) She is not used to cooking for so many people and there is never enough food.
(c) She makes unnecessary changes in recipes to save money.
(d) She is inattentive and careless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys think Jutland is named after?

2. What kind of a person does Enid's mother make her promise not to marry?

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

4. What is the Willens house known for?

5. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?

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