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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Olive Green sends the girls outside to her husband's truck, what do the girls seem most focused on?
(a) Excitement over the Greens' dog.
(b) Sorrow at leaving Enid.
(c) Dread about going to stay with their aunt.
(d) Confusion about where their father is.

3. What does Rupert spend some time looking for before he and Enid start for the river?
(a) A hatchet.
(b) Cushions.
(c) Boots.
(d) The rowboat's oars.

4. What is the souvenir cloth from?
(a) Rupert's parents' visit to see a famous set of quintuplets.
(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 and Mrs. Quinn's honeymoon at Niagara Falls.

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

6. What does Enid tell Rupert about her second notebook?
(a) It is the notebook she has been using to teach the girls proper handwriting.
(b) It is empty for now, but she will use it when she runs out of space in her first notebook.
(c) It is similar to the one that she keeps for the doctor, but it contains personal observations, as well.
(d) It is where she keeps herself organized with to-do lists and plans for the future.

7. What crop is Rupert trying to harvest and store in June?
(a) Hay.
(b) Corn.
(c) Barley.
(d) Wheat.

8. What does Enid ask the girls when they are all sitting outside in the sun together?
(a) Whether they want to continue living with their father after their mother dies.
(b) Whether their mother ever told them about a bad thing that their father did.
(c) Whether they have ever seen a fancy red box with tools in it hidden somewhere in their house.
(d) Whether people who have done very bad things should be punished.

9. When the girls see what a good mood Enid is in, what do they ask her to do?
(a) Take them to the movies.
(b) Let them skip breakfast.
(c) Let them play dress-up.
(d) Take them in the rowboat.

10. What is the first step in Enid's plan once she and Rupert reach the middle of the river?
(a) She will accuse him of killing Mr. Willens.
(b) She will explain how to cover up the murder.
(c) She will tell him that she cannot swim.
(d) She will ask how deep the water is.

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

12. What does Enid begin to have nightmares about?
(a) Sex.
(b) Work.
(c) Dying.
(d) School.

13. 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.

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

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. What sign does Rupert give after the murder that he is starting to realize the seriousness of the situation?

2. Why did Enid never apologize to Rupert for teasing him in school?

3. Who arrives at the Quinn house "before the undertaker did" (68)?

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

5. What is one of the things that Enid teaches Sylvie and Lois?

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