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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 finishes cleaning the bathroom, while Ma watches and sings.
(b) Kissing and moaning.
(c) Paps dances with Ma to music.
(d) Paps leaves the bathroom and Ma puts on her make-up.

2. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?
(a) An adult magazine.
(b) Change for her baby.
(c) Money for rent.
(d) Milk for her baby.

3. What does Ma wear for the family's first drive in the truck?
(a) Her work boots and a house dress.
(b) A red dress and gold hoop earrings.
(c) Ma refuses to go on the first drive.
(d) A short black skirt with high heels.

4. 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 useful and hardworking.
(c) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(d) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).

5. Whys is Ma upset that Paps gets a new truck for the family?
(a) Paps wasted all of their savings on a fancy truck.
(b) Paps stole the truck.
(c) The truck does not have enough seats or seatbelts for the boys.
(d) She wanted a car - not a truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the brothers have to go with Paps to work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?

2. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?

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

4. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?

5. Why is Ma worried about the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

(see the answer key)

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