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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 does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) A glass dish.
(b) Frosting and candles.
(c) A cup of sugar.
(d) A stick of butter.

2. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
(a) Pull the baby robins out of their nest, throw them in the air, and see if they can fly.
(b) Pull off the baby robins' heads.
(c) Throw them into shoeboxes.
(d) Kill them.

3. What does the narrator notice in the back of the truck on the way to the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) Something wrapped up in an old rug.
(b) A man hiding underneath a blanket.
(c) The brothers' toys are placed in bins.
(d) Plastic bags filled with the brothers' clothes, papers, and pictures.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?

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

3. What is unusual about the way Paps and Ma are dressed during the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??

4. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?

5. What simile is used to compare Paps' shouting on Page 23?

(see the answer key)

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