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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 state do Ma and Paps travel to to get married?
(a) California.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New York.
(d) Texas.

2. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?
(a) God.
(b) The Holy Spirit.
(c) The Father.
(d) The Son.

3. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(b) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(c) To babysit the boys.
(d) Ma has not been showing up to work.

4. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?
(a) Ma says that it "rained down silver jingles" (27).
(b) Ma says that Manny was "mixed up" (26).
(c) Ma says that Manny's, "eyes were wet, black-holey - no fear there, no disgust, no pity" (27).
(d) Ma says that Manny was "growing, heart ticking like a time bomb" (26).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?

2. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

3. How does the narrator know that Ma is delighted when Paps returns at the start of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

4. What does the headbanger look like?

5. Why do the brothers run their fingers around the empty bowls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

(see the answer key)

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