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Dark Water Rising Chapter 1-11 Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is one way the setting influences the plot?

a)

The setting helps explain why Josiah and Ezra are not treated as equals.

b)

The setting explains why Seth has to go to college.

c)

The setting changes Seth's relationships with his mother.

d)

The setting demonstrates Paps's internal conflict.

2.

A dray was used at various points in the story. How is the word dray defined?

a)

A tool belt used for carpentry

b)

A low cart for carrying heavy loads

c)

The storm flag raised for warning

d)

The outhouse in the back yard at the rental

3.

What could Seth's discovery of Kate's "funeral flowers" foreshadow?

a)

Ella Rose may die

b)

Kate may die

c)

Kate died before the storm started

d)

Josiah may die

4.

How does having Seth tell the story affect the plot?

a)

The reader only knows what Seth sees and thinks.

b)

The reader gets insights into other characters feelings.

c)

The reader learns what Ella Rose looks like.

d)

The reader learns about the "Great Conflagration."

5.

What is one possible theme of the story?

a)

the importance of family

b)

Seth and Josiah are equals

c)

Seth should be a doctor

d)

doctors make a lot of money

6.

Seth's dream is to become a

a)

Doctor

b)

Lawyer

c)

Carpenter

d)

Plumber

7.

Identify the figurative language:

"I'd likely end up spending years poring over books and cadavers, and the rest of my life shut up inside a small white room,... The probability of that happening squirmed inside me like a bellyful of grub worms."

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

8.

What two things are being compared in the simile "I glared at him (Matt) sitting there like he was the biggest toad in the pond."

a)

Matt and Seth

b)

Sitting and toad

c)

toad and pond

d)

Matt and toad

9.

To which sense is the quote appealing (sensory language) -

"By the time we started home, there was nothing left but twinkling silver in a black umbrella sky."

a)

sight

b)

sound

c)

touch

d)

taste

10.

"I stood by the raised basement, letting the feeling grow inside me, and remembered: A north wind always brought change." This is an example of...

a)

Flashback

b)

Foreshadowing

c)

Personification

d)

Oxymoron