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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the protagonist looking for when he discovered the mask and costume in "A Silvery Night"?
(a) Snakes.
(b) A marble.
(c) Kittens.
(d) Four-leaf clovers.

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

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

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

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

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. How does the boss attempt suicide in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

3. In describing the cemetery in "It's That It Hurts," the narrator notes that it looks nothing like the one where?

4. What does the narrator say Don Laito began wearing that belonged to the "wetback" in "Hand in His Pocket"?

5. What does the narrator's father want him to be when he grows up in "It's That It Hurts"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe his treatment by Dona Bone and Don Laito when he first began staying with them in "Hand in His Pocket"?

2. What happens to the protagonist's younger brother in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"? How does he respond?

3. What is the boy's plan for getting water from the tank unnoticed in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

4. How does the protagonist respond to his mother's prayers in "And the Earth Did Not Devour Him"?

5. To whom does the woman pray in "A Prayer"? Why?

6. Who is Dona Cuquita and how is she described in "It's That It Hurts"?

7. What happens when the protagonist hears someone calling his name in "The Lost Year"?

8. Why does the farmer hold off from firing the laborers for taking water in "The Children Couldn't Wait"?

9. What is a "vignette" and how would you describe the vignettes in And the Earth Did Not Devour Him?

10. How does the narrator describe his humiliation upon arriving at the new school in "It's That It Hurts"?

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