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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 the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(b) Ma states that with her older sons she had to "meet taught with tough" (17).
(c) Ma states that with her older sons she no longer had to "shy away" (17).
(d) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).

2. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?
(a) The Son.
(b) God.
(c) The Father.
(d) The Holy Spirit.

3. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(b) To babysit the boys.
(c) Ma has not been showing up to work.
(d) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.

4. Where does Ma work?
(a) A clothing store in the city.
(b) As a housekeeper at a hotel.
(c) Ma does not work.
(d) The brewery up the hill.

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 "curious, rubbing her palms slowly."
(b) She is "concrete and howled."
(c) She is "half gruff, half troll."
(d) She is "drinking us [the brothers] in."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?

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

4. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?

5. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?

(see the answer key)

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