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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Hand in His Pocket".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator in "The Children Couldn't Wait" describes the time of year as being the beginning of what month?
(a) March.
(b) August.
(c) April.
(d) July.
2. What does the boy tell his father he will do in order to sneak water from the tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) Pretend he is having a heat stroke.
(b) Connect a hose to the tank.
(c) Pretend he is relieving himself.
(d) Pretend to take water to the cattle.
3. When does the boy in "What His Mother Never Knew..." decide he will tell his mother the truth?
(a) In the morning.
(b) On his twelfth birthday.
(c) Whe he is grown up.
(d) When his father gets home.
4. How many different sounds does the narrator say he heard the last time he lay in the grass at the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) 92.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 26.
5. When describing the first fight he ever had at school in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator says that they started pushing him toward whom?
(a) Julio.
(b) Ramiro.
(c) Juan.
(d) Rico.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the boss turn to after the incident at the water tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
2. In describing the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator notes that it looks nothing like the one where?
3. Why does the protagonist's mother in "What His Mother Never Knew..." leave water in his room?
4. What does the narrator's father want him to be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?
5. What weapon does the boss take out to scare the migrant workers from taking water in the tank in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
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