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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, THE LAKE - Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) Ma has not been showing up to work.
(b) To babysit the boys.
(c) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(d) To tell Ma she has been fired.

2. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The family's sullied house.
(b) The way they looked when they were born.
(c) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.
(d) The birth of baby robins.

3. What does Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?
(a) A chair over Paps' head.
(b) A brass-handled mirror.
(c) A plate against the wall.
(d) A clock on the cold tile floor.

4. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?
(a) Hector Puente.
(b) Tito Puente.
(c) Maria Constatine.
(d) An old band the boys have never heard before.

5. Where does Ma work?
(a) As a housekeeper at a hotel.
(b) The brewery up the hill.
(c) A clothing store in the city.
(d) Ma does not work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?

2. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?

3. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?

4. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?

5. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?

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