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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. 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 he felt himself falling into rage.
(b) Because everything happened so slow.
(c) Because he gave the boy a bloody nose.
(d) Because everything happened so fast.

2. From what narrative point of view is "It's That It Hurts" related?
(a) Third person.
(b) Fourth person.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

3. Where does the son tell his father that the working conditions were always better in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Down south.
(b) Overseas.
(c) Up north.
(d) Out west.

4. What does Dad describe the women picking lice as looking like in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Chickens in a pen.
(b) Pigs on a farm.
(c) Parrots in the zoo.
(d) Monkeys in the zoo.

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 he is having a heat stroke.
(c) Connect a hose to the tank.
(d) Pretend to take water to the cattle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the woman imply the dump man likes to keep in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. What present does the narrator say Don Laito and Dona Bone brought him at the farm after his stay with them in "Hand in His Pocket"?

4. What happens when the central figure of "The Lost Year" begins to think everything is clearing up?

5. 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"?

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