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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "It's That It Hurts".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the woman tell the children to watch out for as they cross the bridge in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Snakes.
(b) The train.
(c) Passing cars.
(d) River trolls.

3. Where does the narrator say he prefers to stay rather than going to school in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) The ranch.
(b) The general store.
(c) The church.
(d) His aunt's house.

4. 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"?
(a) 12.
(b) 92.
(c) 26.
(d) 15.

5. What does one migrant worker say the boss looks like now in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) A beggar.
(b) A woman.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the boy at the water tank when the boss attempts to scare the migrants away in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

2. 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?

3. What word from "It's That It Hurts" refers to a white person from an English-speaking country?

4. Where does the narrator describe his family as staying in "It's That It Hurts"?

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

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