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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. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?
(a) Leave the bites alone to heal.
(b) Cut a cross on the bites with their fingernails.
(c) Put a special lotion he has on the bites.
(d) Spit on their bites.

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

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

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

5. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?
(a) Because Ma is asleep.
(b) Because they have a new baby brother who is asleep.
(c) Because Paps is asleep.
(d) Because the neighbors downstairs get angry if they hear noise.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

4. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?

5. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?

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