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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. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?
(a) "What? Do you want me to teach him how to fly?" (22).
(b) "He's alive! He's alive!" (23)
(c) "He is going to learn" (21).
(d) "How else do you expect to him learn?" (21).

3. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Pull off the baby robins' heads.
(c) Pull the baby robins out of their nest, throw them in the air, and see if they can fly.
(d) Throw them into shoeboxes.

4. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?
(a) Cigarettes or whiskey.
(b) Booze and candy.
(c) Cigarettes or beer.
(d) Gum and cigarettes.

5. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?
(a) 8.
(b) The narrator does not have a birthday.
(c) 14.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?

2. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?

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

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

5. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?

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