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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is an example of a pun from Chapter Three?
(a) The insects who "busy themselves around my lamp" (111).
(b) Charlie's response of "it's a grave matter" when his father says the hole will need to be big enough for both their bodies (110).
(c) Charlie's comparison of his father to Atticus Finch.
(d) The fact that Eliza's favority actress is Audrey Hepburn.

2. What ultimately killed Rosie?
(a) Being ejected from the car.
(b) Her appendix.
(c) A post-surgical infection.
(d) A traumatic brain injury.

3. How has Jasper been working to earn money to leave Corrigan?
(a) Flipping burgers.
(b) Laying brick.
(c) Working on construction sites.
(d) Working in the peach orchards.

4. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "my mother emerges from the house like an angry outlaw exiting a saloon" (99)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Personification.

5. The memory of the peppermint trees at Eliza's house might be a symbol for which of the following?
(a) The refreshing clarity Charlie feels with Eliza.
(b) The loss of her friendship with Jeffrey.
(c) The heat and exhaustion of this terribly sad summer.
(d) Jasper Jones's friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is similar about Charlie's return home in Chapter Three to what happened when he returned Eliza home?

2. Who is at Charlie's house when Jasper and Charlie return to town in Chapter Five?

3. Why is it easy for Charlie to sneak out of his house in Chapter Five?

4. What mass mailing has arrived in Corrigan in Chapter Five?

5. What effect does Jasper have on Charlie in Chapter Seven?

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