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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. What is the weather like when the narrator's family goes to the lake?
(a) There is a nice warm breeze.
(b) The air is cold and crisp.
(c) It is rainy.
(d) There is a heat wave.

2. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?
(a) Because the pregnant woman asks the brothers if they know how to be proper.
(b) Because Paps spanks the brothers and tells them to behave properly.
(c) Because Ma asks the brothers to be proper and stop playing games.
(d) Because the drugstore clerk asks the brothers to behave properly.

3. 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) Cigarettes.
(c) Crescents.
(d) Clumps.

4. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) A stick of butter.
(b) A cup of sugar.
(c) A glass dish.
(d) Frosting and candles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?

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

3. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?

4. When the boys' father, Paps, comes home, how does he punish his sons?

5. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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