1. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.
(b) In upstate New York after the snow melted.
(c) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.
(d) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.

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

3. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.
(b) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).
(c) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(d) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.

4. Why do the brothers run their fingers around the empty bowls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Because there is excess frosting left in the bowls.
(b) Because they are angry all the food is gone.
(c) Because they are curious what the food tastes like.
(d) Because they are so hungry and want all the food there is left.

5. What line on Page 97 best chronicles how the narrator feels about what the headbanger shows the Brothers in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) "Yeah, you like that, don't you?" (97).
(b) "...[W]e had seen them fail, but without understanding..." (97).
(c) "...[W]e boys, we had always seen so much of them..." (97).
(d) "Didn't have nothing to do with us" (97).