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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 metaphor does the narrator use at the end of Page 27 about the pregnant woman's response to the brothers?
(a) She is "half gruff, half troll."
(b) She is "drinking us [the brothers] in."
(c) She is "concrete and howled."
(d) She is "curious, rubbing her palms slowly."

2. What simile is used to compare Paps' shouting on Page 23?
(a) Paps' shouting is compared to a mad scientist.
(b) Paps' shouting is compared to black-green murkiness.
(c) Paps' shouting is compared to a marvel of his creation.
(d) Paps' shouting is compared to a bobbing mass.

3. At the end of Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, what is Manny's idea to "save" the brothers?
(a) Run away.
(b) Build a big kite that will take them away.
(c) Find a way to reverse gravity.
(d) Get Ma, pile into the truck, and drive away.

4. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?
(a) Manny is 9 years old, and Joel is 7 years old.
(b) Manny is 10 years old, and Joel is 8 years old.
(c) Manny is 14 years old, and Joel is 12 years old.
(d) Manny is 9 years old, and Joel is 8 years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?

2. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?

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

4. On the highway, why does a woman offer to bring the brothers anywhere they need to go?

5. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?

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