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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. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?
(a) Give each other massages.
(b) Kiss and dance.
(c) Fight over where the brothers are hiding.
(d) Have sex.

2. How does Ma respond when Manny asks worriedly if Paps is having a heart attack in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) "What heart?" (41).
(b) Ma "unlaced her work boots, slipped off her socks, and massaged her feet" (40).
(c) Ma dismisses Manny.
(d) "That's all there is" (40).

3. Who do the brothers imitate while playing their chalk circle game in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) Ma.
(b) Lina.
(c) An unruly neighbor.
(d) Paps.

4. At the start of Chapter 14, TRENCH, what does Manny smear under the brothers' eyes, because they are wearing camouflage clothing?
(a) Black shoe polish.
(b) Ma's black eyeliner.
(c) Ma's red lipstick.
(d) Mud.

5. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?
(a) Manny tells the boys that Paps "don't know shit" (37).
(b) Manny tells the narrator that Paps "was still broken, still dead-eyed, but not dead" (36).
(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. Why do the brothers call themselves, "Ma's militia" (80)?

2. What does Ma say to the brothers at the park while they are hiding in a canoe?

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

4. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?

5. What does Paps do at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?

(see the answer key)

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