View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Night Before Christmas".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dad describe the women picking lice as looking like in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Parrots in the zoo.
(b) Monkeys in the zoo.
(c) Chickens in a pen.
(d) Pigs on a farm.

2. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that in the first fight he had at school he got scared for what reason?
(a) Because everything happened so slow.
(b) Because he gave the boy a bloody nose.
(c) Because he felt himself falling into rage.
(d) Because everything happened so fast.

3. What word resounds to the protagonist as he carries his little brother to the house after he collapsed in the fields in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?
(a) How.
(b) Where.
(c) What.
(d) Why.

4. The narrator's father says that who has to be on their toes in "Why Do Y'all Go to School So Much?"
(a) The ones higher up.
(b) The poor.
(c) The women.
(d) The children.

5. What is printed on the arch over the gate to the cemetery described by the narrator in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) In heaven's arms.
(b) Rest in peace.
(c) Don't forget me.
(d) Rose Hill Cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the protagonist's father when he began helping his father plant corn in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

2. Where does Dona Maria's husband work?

3. What does the woman imply the dump man likes to keep in "It's That It Hurts"?

4. What does the protagonist's mother say she has given is father all day in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

5. Why were the protagonist's aunt and uncle sent away in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 299 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample