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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, THE LAKE - Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?
(a) All babies are Christian.
(b) All babies have daddies.
(c) She needs money for diapers.
(d) The brothers need to get away from her.

2. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(b) Ma has not been showing up to work.
(c) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(d) To babysit the boys.

3. According to Ma, in Chapter 4, SEVEN, who "studies God"(13)?
(a) Good boys.
(b) Monks.
(c) Priests.
(d) Nuns.

4. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?
(a) Manny tells the boys that Paps "yelled that one word over and over, stop, stop, stop" (37).
(b) Manny says that "he'd picked up with another woman" (36).
(c) Manny tells the narrator that Paps "was still broken, still dead-eyed, but not dead" (36).
(d) Manny tells the boys that Paps "don't know shit" (37).

5. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Crescents.
(d) Clumps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

2. What does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?

3. At the start of the novel, how many boys, also brothers, are introduced?

4. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?

5. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?

(see the answer key)

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