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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 Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?
(a) Animals and locusts.
(b) Stupid and poor.
(c) Animals and orphans.
(d) Burglars and orphans.

2. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?
(a) "[B]urglars" (25).
(b) "[A] woman" (24).
(c) The "Three Musketeers" (24).
(d) "[A] ladder" (24).

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

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

5. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?
(a) Tito Puente.
(b) Hector Puente.
(c) An old band the boys have never heard before.
(d) Maria Constatine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?

3. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?

4. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?

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

(see the answer key)

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