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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 do the brothers use to make kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Plastic bags and floss.
(b) Paper and string.
(c) Twine and old sheets.
(d) Twine and plastic bags.

2. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) An old yellow phone.
(b) Their old clothes and toys.
(c) A box of old photos of Ma and Paps.
(d) A gun.

3. After flying kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, Manny crawls into the narrator's bed and says that he had a dream about what?
(a) That the kites wrapped around Paps and took Paps away.
(b) Kites being hit by lightening and burning up.
(c) The boys running away to the woods.
(d) All types of kites mixed up together.

4. On the highway, why does a woman offer to bring the brothers anywhere they need to go?
(a) Because they are sitting on the edge of a bridge on the highway alone.
(b) Because the brothers are alone outside the drugstore.
(c) Because she sees that Paps and Ma are drunk.
(d) Because she notices they are having a physical fight.

5. What kind of accent does Old Man have?
(a) French accent.
(b) Spanish accent.
(c) Missouri accent.
(d) Southern accent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Paps say to the narrator as he dries him off in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

3. Where does Ma work?

4. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?

5. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?

(see the answer key)

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