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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, DUCKS - Chapter 15, TRASH KITES.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Manny's dream, what implied comparison is made about the dream to the brothers' current situation in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Manny compares the brothers to "a whole sky full of kites" (84).
(b) Manny compares the brothers to "a fistful of seed that God tossed into the mud" (84).
(c) Manny compares the brothers to the other neighborhood kids who have no futures.
(d) Manny compares the brothers to prisoners in Paps' house.

2. After flying kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, Manny crawls into the narrator's bed and says that he had a dream about what?
(a) That the kites wrapped around Paps and took Paps away.
(b) Kites being hit by lightening and burning up.
(c) The boys running away to the woods.
(d) All types of kites mixed up together.

3. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?
(a) Manny is afraid of the dark.
(b) Manny wants to tell them a story.
(c) Manny wants body heat.
(d) Manny does not have his own bed.

4. What does Manny scream at while Paps is beating him for going to the field in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) "I hate you!"
(b) "Thief!"
(c) "You're no father!"
(d) "Murderer!"

5. What does Paps do at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) Brings Ma into the bedroom and makes her late for work.
(b) Asks Ma to make him dinner before she leaves for work.
(c) Yells at the brothers to clean their rooms before Paps leaves for work.
(d) Grabs Ma and throws her against the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Ma crawls down into the hole and lies down in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

2. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?

3. When Paps and the brothers return home from Paps' job in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what are they shouting?

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

5. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?

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