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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Jack's life NOT affected after the crash and Rosie's death?
(a) He is ostracized by his community.
(b) His leg is shattered.
(c) He lives with a massive amount of guilt.
(d) He is sent to prison for her murder.

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

3. As they walk out of the woods at the end of Chapter One, how does Charlie feel about Jasper?
(a) As though he could murder Charlie, too.
(b) As thought he must be guilty.
(c) As though they are allies.
(d) As though Jasper will turn himself in.

4. Whom do Eliza and Charlie NOT encounter on their walk to the glade in Chapter Seven?
(a) Jasper Jones.
(b) Drunk couples.
(c) The sarge.
(d) Ruth Bucktin.

5. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "our flyscreen door claps against the side of the house" (99)?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Jasper been working to earn money to leave Corrigan?

2. What is ironic about Mrs. Bucktin's admonishment for Charlie to "show some respect for your things!" (99)?

3. Who steps in to ease the tension over the attack at the vigil in Chapter Five?

4. When Charlie details the ways that Eliza reminds him of Holly Golightly in My Fair Lady, which literary technique is used?

5. What war is taking place during this novel?

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