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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 does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?
(a) Chocolate milk.
(b) Ketchup.
(c) Water and salt.
(d) Maple syrup.

2. What does Lina bring with her to the narrator's house?
(a) Groceries.
(b) A pink slip from work.
(c) A message from the boss.
(d) Money.

3. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?
(a) Joel.
(b) Manny.
(c) Ma.
(d) The narrator.

4. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).
(b) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(c) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.
(d) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.

5. According to Ma, in Chapter 4, SEVEN, who "studies God"(13)?
(a) Monks.
(b) Priests.
(c) Nuns.
(d) Good boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?

2. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?

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

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

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

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