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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Portrait".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe the teacher using to check for lice in "It's That It Hurts"?
(a) Tweezers.
(b) A ruler.
(c) A popsicle stick.
(d) A pencil.

2. To whom is the prayer addressed in "A Prayer"?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Hare Krishna.

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

4. What is the water tank that the migrants take water from intended for in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?
(a) The crops.
(b) The cattle.
(c) The laborers.
(d) The children.

5. The narrator in "It's That It Hurts" says that he thinks it all started when he got what?
(a) Angry and embarrassed at the same time.
(b) Happy and content at the same time.
(c) Drunk in class.
(d) Slapped across the face by the teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist's friend say happens to most people who try to summon the devil in "A Silvery Night"?

2. Where does the narrator describe Dad coming home from in "It's That It Hurts"?

3. What does the woman tell the dump man to say if he comes to see what they are doing in "It's That It Hurts"?

4. How does the narrator of "The Lost Year" say it always begins for the central figure?

5. How does the narrator describe the heat having set in, in the opening of "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

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