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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 do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?
(a) Money for rent.
(b) Milk for her baby.
(c) Change for her baby.
(d) An adult magazine.

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

3. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.
(b) The birth of baby robins.
(c) The family's sullied house.
(d) The way they looked when they were born.

4. Why is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?
(a) Because he is from Canada.
(b) Because he is afraid of drowning.
(c) Because he has never seen water before.
(d) Because he grew up away from the water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?

2. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?

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

4. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?

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

(see the answer key)

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