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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Don Laito and Dona Bone say they were building when they had the narrator dig a hole in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) A deck.
(b) A cellar.
(c) A tunnel.
(d) A grave.

3. Where was the protagonist taken to the shepherds plays in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) His Aunt Maria's.
(b) His uncle Ramirez's.
(c) His Uncle Julio's.
(d) His Aunt Pana's.

4. 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) How.
(b) Where.
(c) Why.
(d) What.

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

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

7. 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) Kill his siblings.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Call the police.

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

9. How does the boss attempt suicide in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) By overdosing on pills.
(b) By hanging.
(c) By jumping from a tree.
(d) By slitting his wrists.

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

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

12. 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 goes to sleep.
(c) He writes poetry.
(d) He calls his father.

13. On what day of the week does the narrator describe the ladies picking lice from each other's heads by the chicken coop in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Fridays.
(b) Sundays.
(c) Saturdays.
(d) Mondays.

14. Where does the narrator describe Dad coming home from in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) The church.
(b) The bank.
(c) The fields.
(d) The shopping center.

15. Where does the son tell his father that the working conditions were always better in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Up north.
(b) Overseas.
(c) Down south.
(d) Out west.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe the protagonist feeling when he saw his mother crying for his uncle and aunt in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

2. Where does the narrator say he was placed in the classroom in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. Why does the boss not like the idea of the migrant workers taking time to drink from the water tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

4. How many Sundays does the person praying say they have previously come to pray in "A Prayer"?

5. How long ago was it when a badger got into a neighbor's home in "A Silvery Night"?

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