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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. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?
(a) Paps leaves the bathroom and Ma puts on her make-up.
(b) Kissing and moaning.
(c) Paps finishes cleaning the bathroom, while Ma watches and sings.
(d) Paps dances with Ma to music.

2. What job does Paps finally get?
(a) The gas station.
(b) An automotive shop.
(c) At the brewery, with Ma.
(d) A security guard, the night watch.

3. How is the reader initially tipped off that the headbanger is showing the brothers a pornographic movie?
(a) Because the narrator sees the title of the movie posted on the side of it.
(b) Because the narrator remembers a memory of Paps explaining pornography to him.
(c) Because the headbanger's dad yells at them for watching adult movies.
(d) Because Manny tells the narrator that they are going to watch pornography.

4. Where do the brothers hide after their bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) The bathtub.
(b) The attic.
(c) The crawlspace.
(d) Ma and Paps' bedroom.

5. How does the narrator know that Ma is delighted when Paps returns at the start of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) Because she "made motorboat noises" (44).
(b) Because she "led us [brothers] to the bathtub" (44).
(c) Because she "sent us [brothers] winks" (44).
(d) Because she "herded us [brothers] into the kitchen" (44).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Lina from?

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

4. How does Manny describe white magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

5. When the narrator says that he expects Manny to talk back to the headbanger, what can the reader infer about the narrator's opinion of Manny?

(see the answer key)

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