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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. How does Ma respond to Paps worries at the end of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) Ma says nothing and cries.
(b) "He's tired" (60).
(c) "Don't. Don't you dare" (60).
(d) "Nobody" (60).

2. When Paps and the brothers return home from Paps' job in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what are they shouting?
(a) "No More Crying! No More Crying!" (59).
(b) "Thump, thump, thump" (58).
(c) "Stop, stop" (59).
(d) "He crying?" (58).

3. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?
(a) Manny tells the boys that Paps "don't know shit" (37).
(b) Manny tells the boys that Paps "yelled that one word over and over, stop, stop, stop" (37).
(c) Manny tells the narrator that Paps "was still broken, still dead-eyed, but not dead" (36).
(d) Manny says that "he'd picked up with another woman" (36).

4. What does the narrator think while Paps holds him over the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) "Wasn't no one there to stop this" (96).
(b) "You're going to learn your lesson" (96).
(c) "I wanted him [Paps] to let me go and die" (99).
(d) "Why won't you look at me?" (97).

5. At the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME, what does Ma cut her fingertip on?
(a) The edge of a soup can.
(b) A piece of glass.
(c) A broken beer bottle.
(d) A metal toy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?

2. How does the narrator know Paps and Ma are fighting when Paps returns home in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

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

4. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?

5. What color is the family's new truck?

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