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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Willens house known for?
(a) Its flowers.
(b) Its bright color.
(c) Its size.
(d) Its unusual roof.

2. Why are the boys staring at the Willens house?
(a) They have begun to suspect that Mrs. Willens has something to do with her husband's death.
(b) They are wondering if Mrs. Willens will be angry at them for waiting so long to go to the police.
(c) It has only just occurred to them that Mr. Willens's death will be terrible for his wife.
(d) It is hard for them to understand how it can look exactly as usual when Mr. Willens is dead.

3. What technique is used in the phrase: "feel the painful recapture of their bodies by their startled blood" (5)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Personification.

4. What can be inferred from Enid's memories of girls at school who married and had children young?
(a) Professional opportunities for women are much too limited.
(b) Being a wife and mother is a difficult life and probably not worth striving for.
(c) People often misunderstand the nature of their own ambitions.
(d) Men will do nearly anything to oppress the women they claim to love.

5. What do the boys usually call one another when they are out at Jutland?
(a) Their first names.
(b) Nothing.
(c) School nicknames.
(d) Family nicknames.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jimmy's mother work?

2. What does Jimmy get embarrassed by as they walk downtown?

3. What kind of a person does Enid's mother make her promise not to marry?

4. Who is with Cece Ferns at the river in the narrative present?

5. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why have the boys come to Jutland?

2. Describe the building that the introduction focuses on.

3. What is Mrs. Quinn dying of, and how does Olive hint that she might have gotten ill?

4. What causes the argument between Bud and his sister Doris just before dinner?

5. What does the scene when the boys are at the Willens house reveal about Mrs. Willens?

6. Once Enid drops out of nursing school, how does she fill her time?

7. What does Enid's father make her promise, and why?

8. How do the details offered about the boys' lives in town clarify what being out in Jutland means to them?

9. What do the police ask Mrs. Willens about her husband, and how does she reply?

10. Explain how the optometrist's instruments illustrate something about surface appearances.

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