Dark Water Rising Chapter 1-11 Quiz

What is one way the setting influences the plot?

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

• The setting explains why Seth has to go to college.

• The setting changes Seth's relationships with his mother.

• The setting demonstrates Paps's internal conflict.

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

• A tool belt used for carpentry

• A low cart for carrying heavy loads

• The storm flag raised for warning

• The outhouse in the back yard at the rental

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

• Ella Rose may die

• Kate may die

• Kate died before the storm started

• Josiah may die

How does having Seth tell the story affect the plot?

• The reader only knows what Seth sees and thinks.

• The reader gets insights into other characters feelings.

• The reader learns what Ella Rose looks like.

• The reader learns about the "Great Conflagration."

What is one possible theme of the story?

• the importance of family

• Seth and Josiah are equals

• Seth should be a doctor

• doctors make a lot of money

Seth's dream is to become a

• Doctor

• Lawyer

• Carpenter

• Plumber

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."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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."

• Matt and Seth

• Sitting and toad

• toad and pond

• Matt and toad

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."

• sight

• sound

• touch

• taste

"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...

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Oxymoron