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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Heart Failure" Pages 44-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Adults.
(c) Animals.
(d) Stones.

2. What reason does Enid give for her and her friends constant humiliation of Rupert when they were in school?
(a) Rupert was a bully to younger boys.
(b) They did it because they were insecure themselves.
(c) Rupert came from a family no one liked.
(d) They did it because they could.

3. What is Enid doing when Rupert comes into the house to find it lit by candlelight?
(a) Writing in her notebook.
(b) Making Rupert some dinner.
(c) Making Mrs. Quinn an eggnog.
(d) Reorganizing the kitchen.

4. 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 is rallying right before she is about to die.
(c) Mrs. Quinn is using some kind of drug to give her an artificial strength.
(d) Mrs. Quinn was faking a lot of her symptoms just to upset her husband.

5. How old was Enid when her father made her promise to drop out of nursing school?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 22.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal's teeth does Enid compare Mrs. Quinn's teeth?

2. Whose sister rides by on a bike and insults the boys after they leave Mrs. Willens's house?

3. What couple does Enid end up playing bridge with?

4. What is the nickname that all three boys acquire as a result of this incident?

5. What do the men in town call the boys when they are in a good mood and want to seem friendly?

(see the answer key)

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