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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the red box in the museum?
(a) Porcelain insulators.
(b) Donations to keep the museum running.
(c) Optometrist's instruments.
(d) Old photographs.

2. What does the overgrown plant life sometimes cause to happen at Jutland?
(a) Children sometimes get lost in the area.
(b) The thick underbrush sometimes catches fire.
(c) The turnaround for cars gets too overgrown to use.
(d) Hikers do not always see bears in time to get away.

3. What is the best description of the narrator's tone when the narrator is describing the boys' business plans?
(a) Wry.
(b) Facetious.
(c) Respectful.
(d) Critical.

4. What can be inferred from Enid's memories of girls at school who married and had children young?
(a) People often misunderstand the nature of their own ambitions.
(b) Being a wife and mother is a difficult life and probably not worth striving for.
(c) Professional opportunities for women are much too limited.
(d) Men will do nearly anything to oppress the women they claim to love.

5. For Enid, what is different about Mrs. Quinn from all of her previous patients?
(a) She does not want to help Mrs. Quinn.
(b) She has never been treated so badly by a patient.
(c) She will be sad when Mrs. Quinn dies.
(d) She thinks there is something suspicious about Mrs. Quinn's illness.

6. What does Enid's mother believe is true about Enid?
(a) She is not smart enough to finish her nursing program.
(b) She has a bit of a martyr complex.
(c) She is a flighty and mercurial person.
(d) She is often stubborn just for the sake of being stubborn.

7. What dessert does Bud get in trouble for picking at before dinner?
(a) Rhubarb pie.
(b) Carrot cake.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Apple pie.

8. Who gave Lois and Sylvie their blocks, coloring books, and paper dolls?
(a) Enid's mother.
(b) Mrs. Willens.
(c) Olive.
(d) Mrs. Box.

9. 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)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Fragment for effect.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Simile.

10. Why are Lois and Sylvie not staying with Olive?
(a) Their father needs some time away from the responsibility of caring for them.
(b) They dislike her and refuse to stay with her.
(c) Mrs. Quinn refuses to let them go, even though she barely sees them.
(d) Her house is far enough away that they would need to change schools.

11. Besides nursing, what other career does Enid consider when she is younger?
(a) Being a missionary.
(b) Being a doctor.
(c) Being an architect.
(d) Being a teacher.

12. Besides "lazy," what is another word that Bud might use to describe his sisters?
(a) Vain.
(b) Sullen.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Stubborn.

13. What is the "Death Trap" (7)?
(a) A bridge.
(b) A sinkhole.
(c) A ruined mill.
(d) A dam.

14. What couple does Enid end up playing bridge with?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Willens.
(b) Captain and Mrs. Tervitt.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Box.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Quinn.

15. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?
(a) The boys enjoy knowing something that no one else knows.
(b) The three boys began to doubt their memories once they were separated.
(c) There is already too much going on in each of their houses.
(d) All three boys are a little bit afraid of their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business do the boys talk about setting up?

2. When Mrs. Willens sees the boys in front of her house, what does she do?

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

4. Where did Rupert meet his wife?

5. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?

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