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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS - Chapter 17, NIAGRA.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Grices' son, the headbanger, carrying when he comes outside in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) An open cell phone.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A bat.

2. Why does Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Because Manny has run away before.
(b) Because Manny is always causing trouble.
(c) Because Manny is the oldest.
(d) Because Manny is the youngest.

3. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?
(a) Salad with vegetables from the garden.
(b) Stew with mutton meat.
(c) Soup with vegetables from the garden.
(d) Vegetables and chicken.

4. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?
(a) Manny tells the boys that Paps "yelled that one word over and over, stop, stop, stop" (37).
(b) Manny says that "he'd picked up with another woman" (36).
(c) Manny tells the narrator that Paps "was still broken, still dead-eyed, but not dead" (36).
(d) Manny tells the boys that Paps "don't know shit" (37).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

2. How does the headbanger get the brothers to come over to his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

3. Hypothetically, what animal would the brothers feed the woman's brains to in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

4. What simile is used on Page 75 to describe the brothers leaning out the window watching Paps?

5. Where does the narrator think Paps is digging to in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

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