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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters I and II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Manolo's death, the Witch's customer paid for her services with what kind of goods?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Milk.
(c) Food.
(d) Medicine.

2. How many full-grown sons raced to claim their father Manolo's assets after his death in an attempt to keep the Witch from getting anything?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

3. What name did the Witch's mother NOT use in reference to her daughter while she was still alive to call the Witch names?
(a) Retard.
(b) Devil child.
(c) Asshole.
(d) Whore.

4. The boys featured in Chapter I see a corpse floating in which type of body of water?
(a) Bog.
(b) Canal.
(c) Lake.
(d) River.

5. As the group of boys in Chapter I moves through the water, they are wading through mud up to what parts of their bodies?
(a) Waists.
(b) Knees.
(c) Shins.
(d) Ankles.

Short Answer Questions

1. All but one of the boys featured in the novel's first chapter are said to be wearing which item as their only piece of clothing?

2. Most of the women who visited the Witch's mother on one particular day of the week covered their faces with what objects as they approached the Witch's house?

3. The ring that no living member of Manolo's family has ever seen had belonged to which one of his family members?

4. For what purpose did the women who visited the Witch once a week cover their faces?

5. The narrator of Chapter I states that the ringleader in the group of boys is wearing what color swim trunks?

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