View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (It Happens All the Time in This House - Breath From the Depths, Pages 43 - 90).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Marga keep repeating to the police?
(a) "My kids, my kids."
(b) "I want to die, I want to die."
(c) "My pain, my pain."
(d) "My husband, my husband."

2. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Marga realize the children do not have before they are found?
(a) Their books.
(b) Their medicine.
(c) Their food.
(d) Their clothes.

3. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola worry about the kids in the neighborhood doing?
(a) Stealing their cat.
(b) Breaking their windows.
(c) Eating their food.
(d) Scratching her fence.

4. In "Breath From the Depths," what does the husband buy that bothers Lola?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Powdered cocoa.

5. In "None of That," what does the mother like to look at?
(a) Clothes.
(b) The trees.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Breath From the Depths," what sound does Lola make sometimes when she breathes?

2. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola's husband let the boy next door borrow?

3. In "None of That," what does the narrator's father leave for the mother and daughter when he leaves the family?

4. In "My Parents and My Children," who is missing partway through the story?

5. In "Breath From the Depths," how do Lola and her husband eat breakfast?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 234 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample