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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Enid, what is different about Mrs. Quinn from all of her previous patients?
(a) She will be sad when Mrs. Quinn dies.
(b) She does not want to help Mrs. Quinn.
(c) She thinks there is something suspicious about Mrs. Quinn's illness.
(d) She has never been treated so badly by a patient.

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

3. What does the overgrown plant life sometimes cause to happen at Jutland?
(a) Children sometimes get lost in the area.
(b) Hikers do not always see bears in time to get away.
(c) The turnaround for cars gets too overgrown to use.
(d) The thick underbrush sometimes catches fire.

4. To what does the narrator compare a part of the retinoscope?
(a) A full moon.
(b) A shark's tooth.
(c) An elf's head.
(d) A mushroom.

5. In high school, what was more important to Enid than having boyfriends?
(a) Her clubs and activities.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her girlfriends.
(d) Her ambition.

6. What word does the narrator suggest describes the way "many adult faces" look to children (7)?
(a) Cartoonish.
(b) Intimidating.
(c) Disinterested.
(d) Grotesque.

7. What is the nickname that all three boys acquire as a result of this incident?
(a) Deadman.
(b) Killer.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Detective.

8. What can be inferred from Enid's father's beliefs about nurses and their potential as wives?
(a) He thinks that what is most important is for Enid to get married.
(b) He understands what a career means to his daughter.
(c) He thinks that men of Enid's generation are foolish in their prejudices.
(d) He is far more old-fashioned than most men of his generation.

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

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

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

12. What does Cece's mother say she can smell on him?
(a) Cigarette smoke.
(b) Beer.
(c) The wind.
(d) The river.

13. What do the boys think Jutland is named after?
(a) The ruins of a dam across the river.
(b) The town founder's birthplace.
(c) The peninsular shape of the land.
(d) A famous WWI battle.

14. Besides his cooking skills, what else does Cece not tell the other boys about?
(a) His hiding place.
(b) His father's drinking.
(c) His mother's illness.
(d) His girlfriend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Lois and Sylvie their blocks, coloring books, and paper dolls?

2. What technique is used in the phrase: "feel the painful recapture of their bodies by their startled blood" (5)?

3. What do the attentions of the creamery manager at the Town Hall dance tell the reader about Enid?

4. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?

5. How long has the doctor predicted Mrs. Quinn will live?

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