IH2BM Quiz

The story is told from which point of view?

• First Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient (unlimited)

Throughout the story, as we learn about the neighbors as characters; what does this passage become an example of: "I didn’t know their names. I’d never heard their voices. I didn’t even know them by sight, strictly speaking, for their faces were too small to fill in with identifiable features at that distance. Yet I could have constructed a timetable of their comings and goings, their daily habits and activities. They were the rear-window dwellers around me."

• Description

• Dialogue

• Actions

• Reactions of others

• Thoughts

Considering who the narrator is, what would this be an example of regarding Thorwald's wife: "She must be so ill she had remained in bed, in the room behind the lowered shade, all day. I watched."

• Description

• Dialogue

• Actions

• Reactions of others

• Thoughts

Considering who the narrator is, what would this be an example of regarding Thorwald: "I couldn’t make out what he was doing at first. He seemed to be busy in a perpendicular, up-and-down way rather than lengthwise. He remained in one place, but he kept dipping down out of sight and then straightening up into view again, at irregular intervals. It was almost like some sort of calisthenic exercise, except that the dips and rises weren’t evenly timed enough for that. Sometimes he’d stay down a long time, sometimes he’d bob right up again, sometimes he’d go down two or three times in rapid succession."

• Description

• Dialogue

• Actions

• Reactions of others

• Thoughts

Considering who the narrator is, what would this be an example of: "I said to myself: What are you really building up this monstrous supposition on? Let’s see what you’ve got. Only that there were several little things wrong with the mechanism, the chain-belt, of their recurrent daily habits over there."

• Description

• Dialogue

• Actions

• Reactions of others

• Thoughts

What would this be an example of for the participating characters (// indicates change of paragraphs): "Boyne began in a galvanized-iron voice: “Jeff, what do you mean by doing anything like this to me? I’ve made a fool out of myself thanks to you. Sending my men out right and left on wild-goose chases. Thank God, I didn’t put my foot in it any worse than I did, and have this guy picked up and brought in for questioning.” // “Oh, then you don’t think that’s necessary?” I suggested, dryly. // The look he gave me took care of that. “I’m not alone in the department, you know. There are men over me I’m accountable to for my actions. That looks great, don’t it, sending one of my fellows one-half-a-day’s train ride up into the sticks to some God-forsaken whistle-stop or other at departmental expense—"

• Description

• Dialogue

• Actions

• Reactions of others

• Thoughts

What is Jeff's limitation?

• crippling birth defect

• paralyzed from a war injury

• broken leg

When in the story do we learn about his limitation?

• at the end of the story

• in the middle of the story

• at the beginning of the story

Which of the following are true about Jeff & Sam's relationship?

• Sam is a manservant

• Sam runs errands for Jeff

• Sam is Jeff's accountant

• Sam does a lot of the footwork for Jeff's "investigation"

• Sam is Jeff's physical therapist

Jeff, at one point, lists “what [he’s] got” against Thorwald (there are seven); identify which three of the following ARE in Jeff's list of evidence:

• Thorwald left the lights on all night

• Thorwald leaves his hat on inside his apartment

• Thorwald killed a curious dog

• Thorwald slept in the livingroom

• Thorwald bought a train ticket out of town