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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. What does the boss turn to after the incident at the water tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Smoking cigarettes.
(c) Pills.
(d) Therapy.

2. 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 spanked at school.
(c) He is expelled from school.
(d) He is grounded.

3. Where does the narrator describe his family as staying in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) The north.
(b) The east.
(c) The west.
(d) The south.

4. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that he thinks it all started when he got what?
(a) Angry and embarrassed at the same time.
(b) Drunk in class.
(c) Slapped across the face by the teacher.
(d) Happy and content at the same time.

5. What does the boy tell his father he will do in order to sneak water from the tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Pretend he is relieving himself.
(b) Pretend to take water to the cattle.
(c) Connect a hose to the tank.
(d) Pretend he is having a heat stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the son tell his father that the working conditions were always better in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

2. What is the name of the woman's son who has been listed as MIA in "She Had Fallen Asleep..."?

3. What did the boss do when the narrator's father told him what the narrator will be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?

4. How does the narrator describe the heat having set in, in the opening of "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

5. Where does the narrator describe being taken first at a new school in "It's That It Hurts"?

(see the answer key)

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