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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Portrait".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the boy in "What His Mother Never Knew..." decide he will tell his mother the truth?
(a) On his twelfth birthday.
(b) Whe he is grown up.
(c) In the morning.
(d) When his father gets home.

2. When the narrator left the home of Don Laito and Dona Bone with his family, they told him not to say anything or they would do what in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Kill his parents.
(d) Kill his siblings.

3. Under whose house did the protagonist find a costume and mask in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) Don Ramirez's house.
(b) Don Julio's House.
(c) Don Laito's house.
(d) Don Rayos' house.

4. In describing the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator notes that it looks nothing like the one where?
(a) In Arkansas.
(b) In Texas.
(c) In Minnesota.
(d) In Oklahoma.

5. For how long does the woman say she has not heard from her son in "She Had Fallen Asleep..."?
(a) Three months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two months.

Short Answer Questions

1. At whose house does Don Mateo stay when he goes to find the man who swindled him in "The Portrait"?

2. What does the narrator say he never saw Don Laito or Dona Bone doing in "Hand in His Pocket"?

3. What does the narrator describe the protagonist feeling when he saw his mother crying for his uncle and aunt in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

4. Where is the water tank that the migrant workers sneak water from in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

5. What word resounds to the protagonist as he carries his little brother to the house after he collapsed in the fields in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

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