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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Introduction and "Jutland" Pages 3-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys plan to brag about when they return from swimming at Jutland?
(a) That they went swimming above the dam instead of below it.
(b) That they swam when there was still some snow on the ground.
(c) That they found a dead body.
(d) That they swam farther out into the river than any of the other boys have before.

2. Who is the author of "The Love of a Good Woman"?
(a) Alice Munroe.
(b) Edith Wharton.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Eudora Welty.

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

4. When do the boys plan to go to the police?
(a) Never.
(b) In the morning.
(c) As soon as they return to town.
(d) After dinner.

5. What first causes the boys to notice the submerged car?
(a) The blue color in the water.
(b) The air bubbles surfacing around it.
(c) The trunk sticking up out of the water.
(d) The motion of the dead man's arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best description of the narrator's tone when the narrator is describing the boys' business plans?

2. What technique is used in the sentence: "Ice daggers shooting up behind their eyes and jabbing the tops of their skulls from the inside" (5)?

3. How did Mr. D. M. Willens die?

4. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?

5. To what does the narrator compare Mr. Willens's arm, floating in the water?

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