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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. How does the narrator of "The Lost Year" say it always begins for the central figure?
(a) With the wind.
(b) With a shadow.
(c) With a dream.
(d) With a song.

2. Where does the narrator say he was placed in the classroom in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) In the front row.
(b) In the teacher's desk.
(c) In the middle.
(d) In the corner.

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

4. What did the barber tell the man in "It Was One Hour Before..."?
(a) That he could not cut his hair.
(b) That he was closed.
(c) That he was out of business.
(d) That he owed him money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boss turn to after the incident at the water tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

2. What does the protagonist's mother in "What His Mother Never Knew..." believe happens to the water?

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

4. In describing the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator notes that it looks nothing like the one where?

5. The mother claims her son wears a medallion of what saint in "A Prayer"?

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