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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Hand in His Pocket".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the "wetback" in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) He was arrested.
(b) He was sent away.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He was hanged.

2. Where does the protagonist of "What His Mother Never Knew..." leave a glass of water every night?
(a) On the kitchen table.
(b) Under his bed.
(c) On the bedside table.
(d) On a bookshelf.

3. Where has the narrator just been in a fight at the school in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) In a classroom.
(b) In the cafeteria.
(c) On the playground.
(d) In the restroom.

4. 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"?
(a) He congratulated him.
(b) He frowned.
(c) He walked away.
(d) He laughed.

5. What does the narrator's father want him to be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) A banker.
(b) A cotton farmer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A telephone operator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother say she will give in exchange for her son's life in "A Prayer"?

2. What does the narrator say Don Laito began wearing that belonged to the "wetback" in "Hand in His Pocket"?

3. How many Sundays does the person praying say they have previously come to pray in "A Prayer"?

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

5. Why does the boss not like the idea of the migrant workers taking time to drink from the water tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

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