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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 Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?
(a) "What? Do you want me to teach him how to fly?" (22).
(b) "He's alive! He's alive!" (23)
(c) "How else do you expect to him learn?" (21).
(d) "He is going to learn" (21).

3. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?
(a) All babies have daddies.
(b) The brothers need to get away from her.
(c) She needs money for diapers.
(d) All babies are Christian.

4. What metaphor does the narrator use at the end of Page 27 about the pregnant woman's response to the brothers?
(a) She is "concrete and howled."
(b) She is "half gruff, half troll."
(c) She is "drinking us [the brothers] in."
(d) She is "curious, rubbing her palms slowly."

5. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?
(a) Change for her baby.
(b) Milk for her baby.
(c) Money for rent.
(d) An adult magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

2. What state do Ma and Paps travel to to get married?

3. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

4. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?

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

(see the answer key)

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