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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from "It's That It Hurts" refers to a white person from an English-speaking country?
(a) Chicano.
(b) Comadre.
(c) Gringo.
(d) Albino.

2. Why does the boss not immediately stop the workers from taking water from the tank when he catches on to their method in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) So he can arrest the workers for theft.
(b) Because he wants the workers to take the water.
(c) So he can get away with not paying them after the work is done.
(d) So he can kill the workers when the right time comes.

3. The does the narrator say the central figure in "The Lost Year" does when his mind goes blank?
(a) He sings a tune.
(b) He calls his father.
(c) He writes poetry.
(d) He goes to sleep.

4. What does the narrator describe the cemetery as looking like in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) A beet field.
(b) A golf course.
(c) A desert.
(d) A dust field.

5. How many Sundays does the person praying say they have previously come to pray in "A Prayer"?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

6. What does the protagonist's mother say she has given is father all day in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) Water.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Milk.
(d) Chicken broth.

7. What does the narrator say the janitor used to scare him with during the fight in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) A mop.
(b) A ruler.
(c) A rake.
(d) A broom.

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

9. What is the protagonist's father afflicted with in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) Sunstroke.
(b) Pheumonia.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Cancer.

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

11. How long ago was it when a badger got into a neighbor's home in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) Six months ago.
(b) Three years ago.
(c) Two years ago.
(d) On year ago.

12. What has are the repercussions for the protagonist for having hit a boy in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) He is suspended from school.
(b) He is expelled from school.
(c) He is spanked at school.
(d) He is grounded.

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

14. Where does the protagonist live with his family in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) A log cabin.
(b) A teepee.
(c) A chicken shack.
(d) A brick house.

15. 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) At the edge of the furrow.
(d) Attached to the farmhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the protagonist of "What His Mother Never Knew..." leave a glass of water every night?

2. What does the narrator's father want him to be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. What did Don Laito and Dona Bone try to make him steal when he was living with them in "Hand in His Pocket"?

4. Why does the narrator say he did not sleep the first night at Don Laito and Dona Bone's home in "Hand in His Pocket"?

5. Whose eyes does the mother ask to be covered in "A Prayer"?

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