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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 does the narrator say he never saw Don Laito or Dona Bone doing in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) Talking.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Eating.
(d) Drinking.

2. Whose eyes does the mother ask to be covered in "A Prayer"?
(a) The Confederates.
(b) The Germans, Russians, and Chinese.
(c) The Americans and the immigration board.
(d) The Communists, Koreans, and Chinese.

3. The does the narrator say the central figure in "The Lost Year" does when his mind goes blank?
(a) He writes poetry.
(b) He calls his father.
(c) He goes to sleep.
(d) He sings a tune.

4. Whose son was pierced by a bullet in "A Prayer"?
(a) Dona Andrea's son.
(b) Dona Maria's son.
(c) Dona Bone's son.
(d) Dona Virginia's son.

5. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that in the first fight he had at school he got scared for what reason?
(a) Because everything happened so fast.
(b) Because everything happened so slow.
(c) Because he felt himself falling into rage.
(d) Because he gave the boy a bloody nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boss attempt suicide in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

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

3. 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?

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

5. From where does the mother pray her son will return safe and sound in "A Prayer"?

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