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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the things that Enid teaches Sylvie and Lois?
(a) To write their names.
(b) To stop slamming doors.
(c) To tie their shoes.
(d) To brush their teeth.

2. What is different about the way that Enid lets the girls play on the last day of their mother's life?
(a) She lets them climb in the trees by the river.
(b) She lets them play outside past dusk.
(c) She lets them get as dirty as they like.
(d) She lets them be as noisy as they want to be.

3. What is Enid's response to the doctor's description of the next case he would like her to take?
(a) She will start immediately.
(b) She might take some time off, instead.
(c) She will have to let him know after she talks to Rupert about something.
(d) She will not take the case if the patient is likely to die.

4. When Enid thinks about the happy lives of the nearby cows, what else does she think of?
(a) Rupert tending the cows.
(b) How much Mrs. Quinn hates the noise they make.
(c) Whether she might learn to make cheese.
(d) The slaughterhouse.

5. What does Mrs. Quinn do with the souvenir cloth?
(a) Burns it.
(b) Tosses it in the river.
(c) Buries it.
(d) Shreds it with scissors.

6. What does the doctor have to say about Enid feeding Mrs. Quinn eggnogs?
(a) Raw eggs might kill the woman.
(b) It is a brilliant idea.
(c) She needs more nutritious food.
(d) It is dragging out her death.

7. On page 67, what is there an excerpt from?
(a) A letter from Rupert Quinn.
(b) Enid's notes for the doctor.
(c) A letter from Jeanette Quinn.
(d) Enid's personal notes.

8. When she is cleaning the Quinns' house in the middle of the night, what does Enid realize?
(a) The Quinns are much poorer than she realized.
(b) The children need to be given some chores.
(c) Rupert has actually not lived in the house for some time.
(d) Mrs. Quinn was a careless housekeeper.

9. What technique is used in the phrase "then a spot of water would show through, quiet as water in a pot" (63)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simle.
(d) Personification.

10. What is the souvenir cloth from?
(a) Rupert and Mrs. Quinn's honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
(b) Olive and Clint's vacation to Toronto to see a famous tower.
(c) Mrs. Quinn's time working in a northern hotel.
(d) Rupert's parents' visit to see a famous set of quintuplets.

11. What does Mrs. Quinn say about the radio show that calls people to offer the chance to answer a question in return for a prize?
(a) The game is rigged by the radio station.
(b) The question make her laugh because they are so easy.
(c) She once won a trip to Niagara Falls from this radio station.
(d) Her brother used to work for this radio show.

12. When Enid returns to the Quinn house on the day of the funeral, what does she initially say is the purpose of her visit?
(a) To find the notebook she left behind.
(b) To check on Lois and Sylvie.
(c) To see how Rupert is doing.
(d) To ask him to take her out in the rowboat.

13. While Rupert is searching through the bin in the woodshed, what does Enid imagine?
(a) What it would be like to be in charge of sorting through and organizing the house as its mistress.
(b) What her life might be like as Rupert's wife and Lois and Sylvie's mother.
(c) Rupert coming up behind her and killing her while they walk to the river.
(d) The life that Mrs. Quinn lived with Rupert before she became ill.

14. In Enid's imagination, what will happen if Rupert agrees to confess?
(a) People in town will think that she is a hero.
(b) She will help Rupert and stand by his side.
(c) Her mother will finally be impressed by something she has accomplished.
(d) Mrs. Willens will be shocked and upset, but eventually she will be grateful.

15. To what does Mrs. Quinn compare the foam coming from Mr. Willens's mouth?
(a) The foam on the river in springtime.
(b) The foam around a rabid dog's mouth.
(c) The foam peroxide makes around a cut.
(d) The foam on boiling strawberries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid make the girls for lunch on the day after their mother's confession?

2. What does Mrs. Quinn find on the front-room table?

3. Instead of going in to Mrs. Quinn right away on the morning after Mrs. Quinn's confession, where does Enid go?

4. What does Enid ask Rupert that causes him to open the door of the front room?

5. Besides the smell of the burning cloth, what other smell does Mrs. Quinn blame for making her sick?

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