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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do the boys plan to go to the police?
(a) After dinner.
(b) Never.
(c) In the morning.
(d) As soon as they return to town.

2. What technique is used in the sentence: "Ice daggers shooting up behind their eyes and jabbing the tops of their skulls from the inside" (5)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Fragment for effect.
(c) Simile.
(d) Juxtaposition.

3. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?
(a) Colloquialism.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Innuendo.
(d) Antimetabole.

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

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

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

7. Enid dislikes "this body that she had to wash and powder and placate" (38). In this context, what does "placate" mean?
(a) Massage.
(b) Soothe.
(c) Manipulate.
(d) Examine.

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

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

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

11. What kind of a person does Enid's mother make her promise not to marry?
(a) A mill worker.
(b) A farmer.
(c) An insurance agent.
(d) A doctor.

12. 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) A famous WWI battle.
(d) The peninsular shape of the land.

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

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

15. Why is Colonel Box so cool and disinterested toward Jimmy?
(a) Jimmy did not keep the secret that Colonel Box trusted him with.
(b) Jimmy is well-known as a troublemaker.
(c) Colonel Box has the same last name but they are not actually related.
(d) Colonel Box disapproves of Jimmy's parents' marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Captain Tervitt's current job?

2. In high school, what was more important to Enid than having boyfriends?

3. To what animal's teeth does Enid compare Mrs. Quinn's teeth?

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

5. When, on page 36, Mrs. Quinn says "Good riddance to bad rubbish," to whom is she referring?

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