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

2. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?
(a) Manny wants to tell them a story.
(b) Manny is afraid of the dark.
(c) Manny does not have his own bed.
(d) Manny wants body heat.

3. 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.

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

5. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?
(a) Stew with mutton meat.
(b) Salad with vegetables from the garden.
(c) Soup with vegetables from the garden.
(d) Vegetables and chicken.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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