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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Night the Lights Went Out".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say Don Laito began wearing that belonged to the "wetback" in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) His watch.
(b) His ring.
(c) His glasses.
(d) His necklace.

2. What does the protagonist's mother in "What His Mother Never Knew..." believe happens to the water?
(a) The spirits drink it.
(b) The cat drinks it.
(c) Her son drinks it.
(d) It evaporates.

3. From what narrative point of view is "What His Mother Never Knew..." related?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) Third person.

4. Until how late do the workers in the fields try to stay working until in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) 6:00.
(b) 5:00.
(c) 3:00.
(d) 4:00.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the "wetback" in "Hand in His Pocket"?

2. What does the woman tell the children to use to turn over trash at the dump in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. Why is the narrator upset that Don Laito and Dona Bone made him work in the yard?

4. With whom does the narrator hope to go to the dump with in "It's That It Hurts"?

5. What is Dona Bone's real name, according to the narrator in "Hand in His Pocket"?

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