“Grandma Nancy is older than the hills” is the hyperbole
Answer. It emphasizes the boys' desire to follow rules.
The writer makes this clear when he says that even when the parents were not around to discipline his actions, Maurice still felt the guilt or the 'unease of wrongdoing'. Even though that he was thinking about an excuse, he was not feeling good about wrongdoing.
Answer:
1)they usually used to listen to radio before the bedtiime
2)teenagers are not attracted by that hair style nowadays
