Selection Quick Checks (English)



1.	According to the narrator, why did Margaret never have opinions about the weather?
	A.	She did not know how to make an opinion.
	B.	She did not care to make opinions.
	C.	She did not have enough experience on which to base opinions.
	D.	She was not smart enough.

2.	How did the farmers initially try to protect their fields from the locusts?
	A.	with prayer
	B.	with smoky fires
	C.	with insecticides
	D.	with loud music

3.	What, according to Richard, might prevent the locusts from moving on?
	A.	rain
	B.	a frost
	C.	a full moon
	D.	clouds

4.	From where do the men get the information on how to defeat the hoppers?
	A.	old Stephen
	B.	a farmer from the north
	C.	a government pamphlet
	D.	one of the servants

5.	What do Richard and old Stephen plan to do once the locusts leave?
	A.	file for bankruptcy
	B.	turn to raising livestock instead of maize
	C.	replant their crops
	D.	move to the city

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