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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Night Before Christmas".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the roads in the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) All paved.
(b) All dirt.
(c) All brick-laid.
(d) All wooden.

2. Where up north does Dona Maria's family go yearly in "The Night Before Christmas"?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Vermont.

3. What does the woman tell the dump man to say if he comes to see what they are doing in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) That they are looking for a lost jacket.
(b) That they are looking for second-hand clothing.
(c) That they came to throw away some stuff.
(d) That they are looking for food.

4. How old was the protagonist's father when he began helping his father plant corn in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) Nine.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

5. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that in the first fight he had at school he got scared for what reason?
(a) Because he gave the boy a bloody nose.
(b) Because he felt himself falling into rage.
(c) Because everything happened so fast.
(d) Because everything happened so slow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits on Christmas Eve with a sack of oranges and nuts in "The Night Before Christmas"?

2. How many different sounds does the narrator say he heard the last time he lay in the grass at the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. Until how late do the workers in the fields try to stay working until in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

4. When describing the first fight he ever had at school in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator says that they started pushing him toward whom?

5. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that he thinks it all started when he got what?

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