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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Quinn discover blood after she has finished cleaning her shoes and the floor?
(a) The rocking chair.
(b) The yard.
(c) The porch.
(d) Her clothing.

2. 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) Down to the river.
(c) To see her mother.
(d) To search the barn.

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

4. 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 see how Rupert is doing.
(b) To find the notebook she left behind.
(c) To check on Lois and Sylvie.
(d) To ask him to take her out in the rowboat.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is implied in the sentence, "The next day Mrs. Quinn's strength came flooding back, in that unnatural and deceptive way that Enid had seen once or twice in others" (56)?
(a) Mrs. Quinn is only pretending to feel better because she has something important to say.
(b) Mrs. Quinn was faking a lot of her symptoms just to upset her husband.
(c) Mrs. Quinn is using some kind of drug to give her an artificial strength.
(d) Mrs. Quinn is rallying right before she is about to die.

11. 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 felt that it would only embarrass him.
(c) She was too ashamed to speak about it.
(d) She thinks that Rupert enjoyed it.

12. What does Mrs. Quinn find on the front-room table?
(a) Smears of brown paint.
(b) Mr. Willens's business card.
(c) The red box.
(d) Blood stains.

13. 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 get as dirty as they like.
(b) She lets them be as noisy as they want to be.
(c) She lets them climb in the trees by the river.
(d) She lets them play outside past dusk.

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) Personification.
(c) Simle.
(d) Hyperbole.

15. What technique is used in the phrase "those big willows with the wild grape hanging on to them like monkeys' shaggy arms" (63)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Enid remember telling her mother about that her mother later convinced her was just a dream?

3. At the end of "Mistake," what is meant by the final sentence, "What a laugh" (62)?

4. 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?

5. What does Mrs. Quinn do with the souvenir cloth?

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