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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Portrait".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word resounds to the protagonist as he carries his little brother to the house after he collapsed in the fields in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) Why.
(b) How.
(c) Where.
(d) What.

2. What does the narrator's father want him to be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) A cotton farmer.
(b) A banker.
(c) A telephone operator.
(d) A teacher.

3. On what day of the week does the Garcia family return home from the movie theater in "The Little Burnt Victims"?
(a) Friday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Saturday.

4. How old is the grandson that visits in "A Stroke Left the Grandfather Paralyzed..."?
(a) 16.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

5. What does the protagonist throw rocks at in "First Communion"?
(a) A dartboard.
(b) A window.
(c) A cactus.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of car does the narrator describe Don Laito and Dona Bone as having in "Hand in His Pocket"?

3. 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"?

4. Dona Chona says of her children in "The Little Burnt Victims" that the older they get the more what they become?

5. Where does the narrator describe being taken first at a new school in "It's That It Hurts"?

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