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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Enid returns to the Quinn house, why is Rupert not out in the barn?
(a) There is not much work left at this time of year.
(b) Friends have helped him finish his chores already.
(c) He is too drunk to work safely.
(d) He is too sad to finish his work.

2. What is ironic about the future that the story implies Enid is heading for?
(a) Her mother has always known her better than she knows herself.
(b) She has learned an important lesson about life through someone else's death.
(c) She has secretly loved Rupert since she was a young girl.
(d) She will end up breaking the promise that she made to her mother.

3. Besides the smell of the burning cloth, what other smell does Mrs. Quinn blame for making her sick?
(a) The cleaning spray.
(b) The river.
(c) The blood.
(d) The paint.

4. Why does Rupert think of taking Mr. Willens to Jutland?
(a) It is remote enough to delay the discovery of the body.
(b) It will give people the impression that he was headed out of town.
(c) It is a common place for people to have accidents.
(d) It will look like he got turned around in the dark and accidentally drove into the water.

5. 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 question make her laugh because they are so easy.
(b) Her brother used to work for this radio show.
(c) She once won a trip to Niagara Falls from this radio station.
(d) The game is rigged by the radio station.

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

7. On page 64, what does Enid imagine that the rowboat's motion is saying to her?
(a) "Tell them. Tell them."
(b) "She lies. She lies."
(c) "You know. You know."
(d) "Help him. Help him."

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

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

10. What does Mrs. Quinn realize when she gets the keys from Mr. Willens's pocket?
(a) His wife might know that he is at their house.
(b) His body is getting stiff.
(c) The neighbors might have already seen the car.
(d) His body is still warm.

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

12. What does Rupert buy for the sickroom to make his wife more comfortable?
(a) A radio.
(b) Blackout curtains.
(c) A down quilt.
(d) A ceiling fan.

13. What is Enid doing when Rupert comes into the house to find it lit by candlelight?
(a) Making Mrs. Quinn an eggnog.
(b) Reorganizing the kitchen.
(c) Writing in her notebook.
(d) Making Rupert some dinner.

14. 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) Personification.
(d) Simle.

15. While Rupert is searching through the bin in the woodshed, what does Enid imagine?
(a) The life that Mrs. Quinn lived with Rupert before she became ill.
(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) What it would be like to be in charge of sorting through and organizing the house as its mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the first place that Mrs. Quinn suggests hiding the car?

2. What is revealed in the paragraph about Mrs. Quinn's wish to smash Mr. Willens's instruments?

3. On page 67, what is there an excerpt from?

4. Once she asks Rupert about his wife's accusation, what does Enid expect his attitude toward her to be?

5. What technique is used in the phrase "those big willows with the wild grape hanging on to them like monkeys' shaggy arms" (63)?

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