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

2. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?
(a) "[B]urglars" (25).
(b) "[A] woman" (24).
(c) "[A] ladder" (24).
(d) The "Three Musketeers" (24).

3. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In upstate New York after the snow melted.
(b) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.
(c) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.
(d) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.

4. What does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?
(a) Boys need to be punished when they disobey.
(b) Boys are wild beasts and hard to manage.
(c) Boys are smart and wild.
(d) Boys should be bonded with many chains.

5. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The boys worry that time will end, and they will die.
(b) The boys chant this to Ma after squirting her.
(c) The boys never feel seen or heard by Ma and Paps.
(d) It is a nickname for the days when the boys do not have to go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?

2. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?

3. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?

4. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

5. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?

(see the answer key)

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