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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. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(b) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.
(c) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).
(d) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.

2. What does Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?
(a) Stupid and poor.
(b) Animals and locusts.
(c) Burglars and orphans.
(d) Animals and orphans.

3. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?
(a) Ma and Manny.
(b) Manny and the narrator.
(c) Joel.
(d) Ma and the narrator.

4. Why is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?
(a) Because he is from Canada.
(b) Because he is afraid of drowning.
(c) Because he has never seen water before.
(d) Because he grew up away from the water.

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) Leaves.
(b) Clumps.
(c) Crescents.
(d) Cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?

2. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?

3. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?

4. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?

5. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?

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