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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 Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?
(a) Ma says that Manny's, "eyes were wet, black-holey - no fear there, no disgust, no pity" (27).
(b) Ma says that Manny was "mixed up" (26).
(c) Ma says that Manny was "growing, heart ticking like a time bomb" (26).
(d) Ma says that it "rained down silver jingles" (27).

2. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

3. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?
(a) Leave the bites alone to heal.
(b) Spit on their bites.
(c) Cut a cross on the bites with their fingernails.
(d) Put a special lotion he has on the bites.

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

5. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.
(b) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.
(c) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.
(d) In upstate New York after the snow melted.

Short Answer Questions

1. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?

2. What does Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?

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

4. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?

5. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?

(see the answer key)

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