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

2. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?
(a) Paps plays British music.
(b) Paps shows his sons pictures of his childhood.
(c) Paps dances in a Puerto Rican style.
(d) Paps takes his sons to meet their grandparents.

3. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) A glass dish.
(b) Frosting and candles.
(c) A cup of sugar.
(d) A stick of butter.

4. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?
(a) Joel.
(b) Ma and the narrator.
(c) Ma and Manny.
(d) Manny and the narrator.

5. Where does Ma work?
(a) The brewery up the hill.
(b) A clothing store in the city.
(c) Ma does not work.
(d) As a housekeeper at a hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool do the boys use to smash the tomatoes?

2. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?

3. According to Ma, in Chapter 4, SEVEN, who "studies God"(13)?

4. What state do Ma and Paps travel to to get married?

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

(see the answer key)

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