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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Witch's community believed that she kept a statue hidden in her house that resembled what figure?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) A serpent.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) The Devil.

2. The Witch at the center of the narrative died when she sustained what type of injury?
(a) A hanging.
(b) A throat slashing.
(c) A stabbing.
(d) A drowning.

3. The poem included in the epigraph section of Hurricane Season entitled "Easter, 1916" was written by which poet?
(a) John Keats.
(b) John Donne.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) Lord Byron.

4. 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?
(a) A shawl.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A parasol.
(d) A fan.

5. What kind of natural disaster happened the year the Witch's mother died?
(a) A landslide.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A volcano eruption.
(d) A hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the group of boys in Chapter I moves through the water, they are wading through mud up to what parts of their bodies?

2. With what type of expression does Dona Tina look at Yesenia just before she dies at the end of Chapter III?

3. What is the name of Yesenia's niece?

4. The narrator describes the corpse in Chapter I as floating among rushes and what other objects?

5. The narrator states that the Witch had never asked greater than what price for performing her conjuring skills?

(see the answer key)

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