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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 Manny specifically explain black magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) As mushrooms that puff out a yellow smoke of spores when squeezed.
(b) As voodoo, snake-charming, and poison.
(c) It is hell and the devil.
(d) It is poison and darkness.

2. When Manny says, "We should have killed that fucking woman," (73) what woman is he alluding to?
(a) The highway or Ma - it is unclear.
(b) A homeless woman they met at the park.
(c) The woman on the highway.
(d) Ma.

3. How does Manny describe white magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) As wild and powerful flowers from the woods.
(b) As ghosts in the night.
(c) As rabbits in hats and card tricks.
(d) As spells and potions.

4. Who goes to the park at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) The brothers and the headbanger.
(b) The brothers go to the park alone, but Ma comes and finds them.
(c) Ma goes to the park alone, and the brothers come find her.
(d) Ma and the brothers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject is Manny always trying to teach the narrator and Joel about as brought up in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP US?

2. What does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?

3. What does Paps declare when the boys approach the hole in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

4. What does Paps do when Ma yells at him, "This fucking big-dick truck" (64)?

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

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