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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 Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?
(a) A brass-handled mirror.
(b) A plate against the wall.
(c) A chair over Paps' head.
(d) A clock on the cold tile floor.

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

3. At the start of the novel, how many boys, also brothers, are introduced?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

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

5. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?
(a) Second person point of view.
(b) Third person omniscient point of view.
(c) Third person point of view.
(d) First person point of view.

Short Answer Questions

1. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?

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

3. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?

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

5. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?

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