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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Under the House".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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"?
(a) A ring.
(b) A compass.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A watch.

3. What is the water tank that the migrants take water from intended for in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) The children.
(b) The crops.
(c) The laborers.
(d) The cattle.

4. What happened to the "wetback" in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) He was hanged.
(b) He was murdered.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He was sent away.

5. 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) Monkeys in the zoo.
(d) Parrots in the zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the protagonist witness a couple copulating in "First Communion"?

2. 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"?

3. Who loaned one of the characters money that gave him enough to buy food for two months in "When We Arrive"?

4. What happens to the boy at the water tank when the boss attempts to scare the migrants away in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

5. What did the minister have a man come to teach the workers at the farm in "One Afternoon a Minister..."?

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