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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, DUCKS - Chapter 15, TRASH KITES.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the family's new truck?
(a) Cobalt blue.
(b) Dark rusty brown.
(c) Blood orange.
(d) Fire engine red.

2. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
(a) Pull the baby robins out of their nest, throw them in the air, and see if they can fly.
(b) Pull off the baby robins' heads.
(c) Throw them into shoeboxes.
(d) Kill them.

3. What are Ma and Paps doing in the bathroom while the brothers bathe in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??
(a) Ma is doing her make-up, and Paps is fixing the plumbing.
(b) Flirting and playing with each other.
(c) Arguing about money.
(d) Ma and Paps are both washing the boys.

4. Who is the first brother to go into the hole in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) Joel.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Manny.
(d) All of the brothers go into the hole at the same time.

5. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?
(a) Because they will quickly fly away back to their house.
(b) Because they are both in his garden.
(c) Because they are damaging his garden.
(d) Because locusts are ugly like the boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?

3. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?

4. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?

5. What do the brothers use to make kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

(see the answer key)

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