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

2. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.
(b) The birth of baby robins.
(c) The family's sullied house.
(d) The way they looked when they were born.

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

4. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
(a) Pull off the baby robins' heads.
(b) Throw them into shoeboxes.
(c) Pull the baby robins out of their nest, throw them in the air, and see if they can fly.
(d) Kill them.

5. What kind of accent does Old Man have?
(a) French accent.
(b) Spanish accent.
(c) Southern accent.
(d) Missouri accent.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?

5. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?

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