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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ring that no living member of Manolo's family has ever seen had belonged to which one of his family members?
(a) His mother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His great-grandmother.

2. As the group of boys in Chapter I moves through the water, they are wading through mud up to what parts of their bodies?
(a) Shins.
(b) Waists.
(c) Knees.
(d) Ankles.

3. For what purpose did the women who visited the Witch once a week cover their faces?
(a) To avoid being accused of prostitution.
(b) To avoid being the subject of gossip.
(c) To avoid interviews.
(d) To avoid criminal prosecution.

4. What name did the Witch's mother NOT use in reference to her daughter while she was still alive to call the Witch names?
(a) Asshole.
(b) Whore.
(c) Retard.
(d) Devil child.

5. The poem included in the epigraph section of Hurricane Season entitled "Easter, 1916" was written by which poet?
(a) W.B. Yeats.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) John Keats.
(d) John Donne.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that the Witch had never asked greater than what price for performing her conjuring skills?

2. What is Dona Tina's weapon of choice when she punishes the children in the family?

3. Yesenia claims that which character only goes out at night?

4. On what day of the week did Yesenia bump into her cousin Luismi for the first time in years?

5. When the Witch was a young girl, she ran many errands for the household, including traveling how many miles each way to reach the market in Villa?

(see the answer key)

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