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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. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?
(a) Manny.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Ma.
(d) Joel.

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

3. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).
(b) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(c) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.
(d) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.

4. What does Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?
(a) Burglars and orphans.
(b) Stupid and poor.
(c) Animals and locusts.
(d) Animals and orphans.

5. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?
(a) Ma says that Manny's, "eyes were wet, black-holey - no fear there, no disgust, no pity" (27).
(b) Ma says that Manny was "mixed up" (26).
(c) Ma says that Manny was "growing, heart ticking like a time bomb" (26).
(d) Ma says that it "rained down silver jingles" (27).

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?

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

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

4. What does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?

5. When the boys' father, Paps, comes home, how does he punish his sons?

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