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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say Don Laito and Dona Bone were in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) Illegal immigrants.
(b) Former spies.
(c) Bootleggers.
(d) Cattle thieves.

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

4. What does the boy tell his father he will do in order to sneak water from the tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Pretend to take water to the cattle.
(b) Pretend he is having a heat stroke.
(c) Connect a hose to the tank.
(d) Pretend he is relieving himself.

5. The narrator's father says that who has to be on their toes in "Why Do Y'all Go to School So Much?"
(a) The children.
(b) The ones higher up.
(c) The women.
(d) The poor.

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

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

8. What does one migrant worker say the boss looks like now in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) A beggar.
(b) A woman.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A banker.

9. What does the boss turn to after the incident at the water tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Smoking cigarettes.
(c) Pills.
(d) Alcohol.

10. When the narrator left the home of Don Laito and Dona Bone with his family, they told him not to say anything or they would do what in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) Kill his parents.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Kill his siblings.

11. Into whose home did a badger get into, according to the father in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) The Marquez's home.
(b) The Garcias' home.
(c) The Ramirez's home.
(d) The Flores' home.

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

13. 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"?
(a) 12.
(b) 92.
(c) 26.
(d) 15.

14. 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.

15. What does the protagonist take with him from home when he leaves in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) A suitcase.
(b) A doll.
(c) A clock.
(d) A raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman tell the children to watch out for as they cross the bridge in "It's That It Hurts"?

2. With whom does the narrator hope to go to the dump with 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. From what narrative point of view is "What His Mother Never Knew..." related?

5. From what narrative perspective is "The Lost Year" related?

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