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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 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's parents' visit to see a famous set of quintuplets.
(d) Rupert and Mrs. Quinn's honeymoon at Niagara Falls.

2. What is Mr. Willens ostensibly doing when Rupert sneaks back into the house?
(a) Examining Mrs. Quinn's eys.
(b) Putting away his instruments.
(c) Buttoning his pants.
(d) Kissing Mrs. Quinn.

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

4. On page 44, what does Enid's mother compare Enid to?
(a) A saint.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A politician.
(d) A nun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie claim that her sister has stolen?

2. Why does Mrs. Quinn finally go back into the front room after the murder?

3. What is the common thread among the questions that Mrs. Quinn asks about Enid's mother?

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 find on the front-room table?

Short Essay Questions

1. What connection between her illness and the murder does Mrs. Quinn see?

2. What does Enid do for the children on the day following their mother's confession, and why?

3. What noise does Mrs. Quinn hear when she is cleaning up after the murder, and what does it turn out to be?

4. What does Mrs. Quinn do once the murder is over?

5. What detail about the Quinn home that Enid noticed in the previous section of the story is explained in this section of the story?

6. When Rupert comes into the house, what does he see happening between his wife and Mr. Willens?

7. Describe Enid's emotional reaction to her memories of the subjects she studied in school.

8. What does Mrs. Quinn do while the murder is happening?

9. When Mrs. Quinn gets agitated on the day she listens to the radio show, what does she question Enid about?

10. How does Enid and Rupert's relationship change over the course of the summer?

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