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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 do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?
(a) Cigarettes or whiskey.
(b) Cigarettes or beer.
(c) Gum and cigarettes.
(d) Booze and candy.

2. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) A glass dish.
(b) A stick of butter.
(c) Frosting and candles.
(d) A cup of sugar.

3. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) The narrator does not have a birthday.

4. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?
(a) An old band the boys have never heard before.
(b) Tito Puente.
(c) Maria Constatine.
(d) Hector Puente.

5. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?
(a) Cut a cross on the bites with their fingernails.
(b) Leave the bites alone to heal.
(c) Spit on their bites.
(d) Put a special lotion he has on the bites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?

2. What does Lina call Ma after arriving at the narrator's house?

3. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?

4. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?

5. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?

(see the answer key)

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