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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 is the weather like when the narrator's family goes to the lake?
(a) It is rainy.
(b) There is a heat wave.
(c) There is a nice warm breeze.
(d) The air is cold and crisp.

2. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?
(a) All babies have daddies.
(b) The brothers need to get away from her.
(c) She needs money for diapers.
(d) All babies are Christian.

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

4. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The boys chant this to Ma after squirting her.
(b) The boys worry that time will end, and they will die.
(c) The boys never feel seen or heard by Ma and Paps.
(d) It is a nickname for the days when the boys do not have to go to school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?

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

3. Where is Lina from?

4. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?

5. When the boys' father, Paps, comes home, how does he punish his sons?

(see the answer key)

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