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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 Lina call Ma after arriving at the narrator's house?
(a) Comrade.
(b) Amiga.
(c) Shorty.
(d) Little One.

2. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).
(b) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(c) Ma states that with her older sons she no longer had to "shy away" (17).
(d) Ma states that with her older sons she had to "meet taught with tough" (17).

3. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?
(a) The Monkeys.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) The Robbers.
(d) The Gentleman.

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

5. Where is Lina from?
(a) The drugstore.
(b) The paper mill.
(c) China.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?

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

3. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

4. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?

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

(see the answer key)

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