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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "It's That It Hurts".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe the cemetery as looking like in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) A beet field.
(b) A golf course.
(c) A dust field.
(d) A desert.

2. What does the mother say she will give in exchange for her son's life in "A Prayer"?
(a) Her daughter's life.
(b) Her own life.
(c) Her devotion.
(d) Her husband's life.

3. Whose eyes does the mother ask to be covered in "A Prayer"?
(a) The Communists, Koreans, and Chinese.
(b) The Americans and the immigration board.
(c) The Confederates.
(d) The Germans, Russians, and Chinese.

4. The narrator in "The Children Couldn't Wait" describes the time of year as being the beginning of what month?
(a) August.
(b) July.
(c) March.
(d) April.

5. When does the boy in "What His Mother Never Knew..." decide he will tell his mother the truth?
(a) In the morning.
(b) When his father gets home.
(c) Whe he is grown up.
(d) On his twelfth birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the narrator hope to go to the dump with in "It's That It Hurts"?

2. What does Dad describe the women picking lice as looking like in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. What always happens when the central figure of "The Lost Year" turns see who is calling his name?

4. What is the name of the woman's son who has been listed as MIA in "She Had Fallen Asleep..."?

5. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that in the first fight he had at school he got scared for what reason?

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