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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 cellar.
(b) A tunnel.
(c) A deck.
(d) A grave.

3. What did Don Laito and Dona Bone try to make him steal when he was living with them in "Hand in His Pocket"?
(a) A gold ring.
(b) A cat.
(c) A sack of flour.
(d) A pocket watch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say Don Laito and Dona Bone showed him how to make in "Hand in His Pocket"?

3. How does the boss attempt suicide in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

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

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the unnamed character say he does not plan to go to Utah in "Comadre, Do You All Plan to Go to Utah?"

2. Where is the location of Utah described in "Comadre, Do You All Plan to Go to Utah?"

3. Why does the narrator stop eating sweet breads in "Hand in His Pocket"?

4. What does the minister promise to the workers in "One Afternoon a Minister..."?

5. What does the protagonist hide from his mother in "What His Mother Never Knew..."?

6. Why does the "wetback" start coming to see Dona Bone in "Hand in His Pocket"?

7. What happens when the protagonist goes to the knoll in "A Silvery Night"?

8. What is the boy's plan for getting water from the tank unnoticed in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

9. Why does the farmer hold off from firing the laborers for taking water in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

10. When does the narrator say that the protagonist first felt anger in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

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