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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "A Silvery Night".

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

2. Where is the water tank that the migrant workers sneak water from in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) On a sandy knoll.
(b) In the center of the field.
(c) Attached to the farmhouse.
(d) At the edge of the furrow.

3. What does the protagonist's friend say happens to most people who try to summon the devil in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) They die.
(b) They are abducted.
(c) They go insane.
(d) They lose their souls.

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. What does the person praying ask to protect her son from in "A Prayer"?
(a) Temptation.
(b) Greed.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) The Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the prayer addressed in "A Prayer"?

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

3. What does the narrator describe the teacher using to check for lice in "It's That It Hurts"?

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

5. What did the barber tell the man in "It Was One Hour Before..."?

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