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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. 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) Kill his parents.
(b) Kill his siblings.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Call the police.

2. What happens when the central figure of "The Lost Year" begins to think everything is clearing up?
(a) He remembers his mother.
(b) He leaves to go to school.
(c) He hears a bell ring.
(d) He is at a loss for words.

3. What does the narrator say Don Laito and Dona Bone were in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) Cattle thieves.
(b) Illegal immigrants.
(c) Former spies.
(d) Bootleggers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Don Laito and Dona Bone say they were building when they had the narrator dig a hole in "Hand in His Pocket"?

2. What is printed on the arch over the gate to the cemetery described by the narrator in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. Whose eyes does the mother ask to be covered in "A Prayer"?

4. How does the narrator describe the roads in the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts"?

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

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