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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 far is downtown from Dona Maria's home in "The Night Before Christmas"?
(a) Two blocks.
(b) Two miles.
(c) Six blocks.
(d) Three blocks.

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

3. What does the protagonist's mother say she has given is father all day in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) Milk.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Chicken broth.
(d) Water.

4. On what day of the week does the narrator describe the ladies picking lice from each other's heads by the chicken coop in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Fridays.
(b) Saturdays.
(c) Mondays.
(d) Sundays.

5. What has are the repercussions for the protagonist for having hit a boy in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) He is suspended from school.
(b) He is expelled from school.
(c) He is grounded.
(d) He is spanked at school.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator say Dona Maria decided to buy something for her children in "The Night Before Christmas"?

2. Where has the narrator just been in a fight at the school in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. 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"?

4. From what narrative point of view is "It's That It Hurts" related?

5. 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?

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