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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. What name does Manny call the woman trying to help them?
(a) Bitch.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Slut.
(d) Nosy.

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

3. Why is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?
(a) Because he has never seen water before.
(b) Because he grew up away from the water.
(c) Because he is from Canada.
(d) Because he is afraid of drowning.

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

5. In the crawlspace, the narrator asks Joel, "It's just going to be like this forever?" (43). What is the narrator referring to?
(a) Paps' abusive ways and how they will get out of the situation.
(b) The brothers always being spanked after school.
(c) The family being poor and not able to support themselves.
(d) Ma and Paps' relationship and it affects their situation and futures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?

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

3. What does Joel say is the reason for Paps' digging a hole in the backyard?

4. Who goes to the park at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?

5. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?

(see the answer key)

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