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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Cece's mother usually do after their midday meal?
(a) Go back to bed.
(b) Go to her sister's.
(c) Go to work.
(d) Go to church.

3. Who is the author of "The Love of a Good Woman"?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Alice Munroe.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Eudora Welty.

4. What does Enid recall a patient doing with a willow platter she asked Enid to retrieve for her?
(a) Giving it away to a stranger.
(b) Asking Enid to hide it.
(c) Smashing it.
(d) Giving it to Enid.

5. Besides nursing, what other career does Enid consider when she is younger?
(a) Being an architect.
(b) Being a missionary.
(c) Being a teacher.
(d) Being a doctor.

6. What household task does Olive take care of for the Quinns?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Childcare.
(d) Cleaning.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?
(a) A gold coin.
(b) A cow's hipbone.
(c) A pack of cigarettes.
(d) Shell casings from a rifle.

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

14. 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) Antimetabole.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Innuendo.
(d) Colloquialism.

15. What does Enid's mother believe is true about Enid?
(a) She is often stubborn just for the sake of being stubborn.
(b) She is a flighty and mercurial person.
(c) She has a bit of a martyr complex.
(d) She is not smart enough to finish her nursing program.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Cece take over for his mother when he gets home?

2. Why is Colonel Box so cool and disinterested toward Jimmy?

3. To what does the narrator compare the opthalmoscope?

4. What kind of business do the boys talk about setting up?

5. What couple does Enid end up playing bridge with?

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