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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is the narrator upset that Don Laito and Dona Bone made him work in the yard?
2. How does the narrator describe the heat having set in, in the opening of "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
3. What did Don Laito and Dona Bone say they were building when they had the narrator dig a hole in "Hand in His Pocket"?
4. What is printed on the arch over the gate to the cemetery described by the narrator in "It's That It Hurts"?
5. What does one migrant worker say the boss looks like now in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the "wetback" start coming to see Dona Bone in "Hand in His Pocket"?
2. What does the grandson say he wants most in life in "A Stroke Left the Grandfather Paralyzed..."? How does the grandfather respond?
3. What is a "vignette" and how would you describe the vignettes in And the Earth Did Not Devour Him?
4. How has the protagonist's father gotten ill in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"? What symptoms does he exhibit?
5. How is the cemetery described in "It's That It Hurts"?
6. Describe the narrative perspective of "The Lost Year." Why do you think this chapter is related in this way?
7. What does the minister promise to the workers in "One Afternoon a Minister..."?
8. Where is the location of Utah described in "Comadre, Do You All Plan to Go to Utah?"
9. What does the narrator's father aspire for the narrator to be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"? Why?
10. Why has the narrator been expelled from school in "It's That It Hurts"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the narrator of "It's That It Hurts" say he got into a fight at school? Do you think that his fighting is justified? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
What happens to the owner of the farm in "The Children Couldn't Wait"? Why does he come to this transition? What is remarked about the farmer later in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Dona Maria become disoriented when she goes shopping in "The Night Before Christmas"? How does she respond to the situation? What is the outcome of her actions?
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