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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, THE LAKE - Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) It is a nickname for the days when the boys do not have to go to school.
(b) The boys chant this to Ma after squirting her.
(c) The boys never feel seen or heard by Ma and Paps.
(d) The boys worry that time will end, and they will die.

2. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?
(a) Cigarettes or beer.
(b) Cigarettes or whiskey.
(c) Gum and cigarettes.
(d) Booze and candy.

3. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?
(a) The Son.
(b) The Holy Spirit.
(c) God.
(d) The Father.

4. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?
(a) Because there are leaks all over the house, and they may get wet.
(b) Because Ma will not let them take the raincoats off.
(c) Because they are smashing tomatoes in the kitchen and the guts will ruin their clothes.
(d) Because they spray water on each other as a game.

5. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?
(a) Crescents.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Clumps.
(d) Leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

2. What does Lina bring with her to the narrator's house?

3. What does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?

4. What metaphor does the narrator use at the end of Page 27 about the pregnant woman's response to the brothers?

5. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?

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