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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the central figure of "The Lost Year" begins to think everything is clearing up?
(a) He remembers his mother.
(b) He leaves to go to school.
(c) He is at a loss for words.
(d) He hears a bell ring.

2. When describing the first fight he ever had at school in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator says that they started pushing him toward whom?
(a) Juan.
(b) Rico.
(c) Julio.
(d) Ramiro.

3. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that he thinks it all started when he got what?
(a) Slapped across the face by the teacher.
(b) Drunk in class.
(c) Happy and content at the same time.
(d) Angry and embarrassed at the same time.

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

5. When does the boy in "What His Mother Never Knew..." decide he will tell his mother the truth?
(a) When his father gets home.
(b) On his twelfth birthday.
(c) In the morning.
(d) Whe he is grown up.

6. 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.

7. How does the narrator describe the meat that Dona Bone served him for dinner in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) Green.
(b) Delicious.
(c) Tender.
(d) Succulent.

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

9. What did the boss do when the narrator's father told him what the narrator will be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) He laughed.
(b) He walked away.
(c) He frowned.
(d) He congratulated him.

10. What is printed on the arch over the gate to the cemetery described by the narrator in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Rest in peace.
(b) Rose Hill Cemetery.
(c) Don't forget me.
(d) In heaven's arms.

11. Where has the narrator just been in a fight at the school in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) In the restroom.
(b) On the playground.
(c) In a classroom.
(d) In the cafeteria.

12. Where does the protagonist of "What His Mother Never Knew..." leave a glass of water every night?
(a) On the kitchen table.
(b) On a bookshelf.
(c) On the bedside table.
(d) Under his bed.

13. What did the barber tell the man in "It Was One Hour Before..."?
(a) That he was out of business.
(b) That he could not cut his hair.
(c) That he owed him money.
(d) That he was closed.

14. Under whose house did the protagonist find a costume and mask in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) Don Ramirez's house.
(b) Don Julio's House.
(c) Don Rayos' house.
(d) Don Laito's house.

15. What of her son's does the mother claim she still keeps in "A Prayer"?
(a) His diary.
(b) His paintings.
(c) His toys.
(d) His letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the heat having set in, in the opening of "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

2. Where was the protagonist taken to the shepherds plays in "A Silvery Night"?

3. What actually happens to the water every night in "What His Mother Never Knew..."?

4. To whom is the prayer addressed in "A Prayer"?

5. What does the narrator say the janitor used to scare him with during the fight in "It's That It Hurts"?

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