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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 does the narrator confess he is scared of after Manny talks about the supernatural?
(a) Lightening, his older brothers' behavior, and psychics.
(b) The dark, magic, and poison.
(c) Deep holes, Paps, and God.
(d) Night, girls, and spells.

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

3. How does Ma respond when Manny asks worriedly if Paps is having a heart attack in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Ma "unlaced her work boots, slipped off her socks, and massaged her feet" (40).
(b) "That's all there is" (40).
(c) "What heart?" (41).
(d) Ma dismisses Manny.

4. Who is incessantly calling the narrator's house at the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Paps.
(c) Ma.
(d) Lina.

5. How does the headbanger get the brothers to come over to his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) By offering them money.
(b) By saying that he has alcohol.
(c) By promising to share a joint with them.
(d) By saying that he wants to show them something.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

3. What do the brothers do with the blue rubber pall to play the sidewalk chalk circle game?

4. Who do the brothers imitate while playing their chalk circle game in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

5. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?

(see the answer key)

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