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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Enid usually sleep at the Quinns' house?
(a) In a cot in the kitchen.
(b) In a cot in the children's room.
(c) In what used to be the Quinns' bedroom.
(d) On the couch in Mrs. Quinn's sickroom.

2. When Enid gets up in the middle of the night to work, she thinks that it is the best way to be "penitent" (52). What does this mean she is trying to do?
(a) Keep herself humble.
(b) Show she is sorry.
(c) Keep herself busy and distracted.
(d) Stay organized.

3. Instead of going in to Mrs. Quinn right away on the morning after Mrs. Quinn's confession, where does Enid go?
(a) Down to the river.
(b) To search the barn.
(c) To the Town Hall in Walley.
(d) To see her mother.

4. Why did Enid never apologize to Rupert for teasing him in school?
(a) She does not think it was bad enough to require an apology.
(b) She thinks that Rupert enjoyed it.
(c) She felt that it would only embarrass him.
(d) She was too ashamed to speak about it.

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

6. What does Enid suddenly understand while she is standing in the front room?
(a) That people collaborate to keep some things silent in order to make the world easier to live in.
(b) That all people are guilty of making harmful choices, and that only God can judge them.
(c) That she has wasted much of her life on romantic dreams.
(d) That knowing Rupert's secret gives her great power over him.

7. 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) It is dragging out her death.
(d) She needs more nutritious food.

8. What detail does Enid notice about the front-room floor?
(a) It is starting to rot through.
(b) There is a loose floorboard with an empty space underneath.
(c) It has recently had a new coat of paint.
(d) It has not ever been properly polished.

9. What technique is used in the sentence, "Oh, Missus, would you like me to examine your eyes for you, just sit down here and just you relax and you just shut the one eye and keep the other one wide open" (62)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Anadiplosis.

10. When Mrs. Quinn stares at Enid as if she wants to talk, what does Enid ask her?
(a) Whether she wants to see a priest or minister.
(b) Why she has been such a terrible wife to Rupert.
(c) Whether she is uncomfortable or hungry.
(d) Why she refuses to speak to her daughters.

11. What is revealed in the paragraph about Mrs. Quinn's wish to smash Mr. Willens's instruments?
(a) She had hated Mr. Willens since she was a child.
(b) She was toying with Mr. Willens to make her husband jealous.
(c) She had some kind of sexual relationship with him.
(d) She was really the one who was manipulating him.

12. When Olive Green comments, on page 69, that "Someone's been busy," what is she referring to?
(a) Enid's growing relationship with Rupert Quinn.
(b) The new manners and hygiene habits Enid has taught the girls.
(c) Enid's cleaning and organizing of the Quinn home.
(d) Mrs. Quinn's telling stories about her brother.

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

14. Why does Mrs. Quinn finally go back into the front room after the murder?
(a) To look for her glasses.
(b) To make sure the paint has dried.
(c) To retrieve something for Sylvie.
(d) To replace the cloth.

15. What does Enid ask Rupert that causes him to open the door of the front room?
(a) How well the new ceiling fan is working.
(b) Where Mrs. Quinn's funeral was held.
(c) Whether the quilts have been taken down from the windows.
(d) If that is where her missing notebook might be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when they carry Mr. Willens's body outside?

2. Where is Rupert going when he tells Enid he will be away for a couple of days?

3. What is the first step in Enid's plan once she and Rupert reach the middle of the river?

4. When she is cleaning the Quinns' house in the middle of the night, what does Enid realize?

5. Why does Enid not call the doctor for Mrs. Quinn when she suspects that the woman is about to die?

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