Question

hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first i was not aware of what hunger really meant. hunger had always been more or less at my elbow when i played, but now i began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly. the hunger i had known before this had been no grim, hostile stranger; it had been a normal hunger that had made me beg constantly for bread, and when i ate a crust or two i was satisfied. but this new hunger baffled me, scared me, made me angry and insistent. whenever i begged for food now my mother would pour me a cup of tea which would still the clamor in my stomach for a moment or two; but a little later i would feel hunger nudging my ribs, twisting my empty guts until they ached. i would grow dizzy and my vision would dim. i became less active in my play, and for the first time in my life i had to pause and think of what was happening to me.
“mama, i’m hungry,” i complained one afternoon.
“jump up and catch a kungry,” she said, trying to make me laugh and forget.
“what’s a kungry?”
is a wordplay or a joke.
“it’s what little boys eat when they get hungry,” she said.
direct quotations are exact words spoken or written by someone else
“what does it taste like?”

Explanation:

Since the text provided is a passage with some questions (though not fully clear what the specific question is about, maybe related to literary analysis, vocabulary, or comprehension), but as the current text's question part is not fully presented, I'll assume a common question like identifying the direct quotation.

To identify direct quotations, we look for the exact words spoken or written by someone else, enclosed in quotation marks. In the passage, the lines like "Mama, I'm hungry," "Jump up and catch a kungry," "What's a kungry?", "Is a wordplay or a joke.", "It's what little boys eat when they get hungry," and "What does it taste like?" are direct quotations as they are the exact words spoken by the characters.

Answer:

The direct quotations are: "Mama, I'm hungry," "Jump up and catch a kungry," "What's a kungry?", "Is a wordplay or a joke.", "It's what little boys eat when they get hungry," "What does it taste like?" (These are the exact words spoken or written by others as per the definition given in the passage: "Direct quotations are exact words spoken or written by someone else")