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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 does Ma say to the brothers at the park while they are hiding in a canoe?
(a) "Promise you won't do it this time?" (68).
(b) "Get yourselves in that truck..." (67).
(c) "I thought you were kidnapped!" (70).
(d) "The heck we doing here?" (69).

2. Why does Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Because Manny is the youngest.
(b) Because Manny is always causing trouble.
(c) Because Manny has run away before.
(d) Because Manny is the oldest.

3. What are Ma and Paps doing in the bathroom while the brothers bathe in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??
(a) Flirting and playing with each other.
(b) Arguing about money.
(c) Ma is doing her make-up, and Paps is fixing the plumbing.
(d) Ma and Paps are both washing the boys.

4. What does Manny scream at while Paps is beating him for going to the field in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) "I hate you!"
(b) "Thief!"
(c) "Murderer!"
(d) "You're no father!"

5. How does the headbanger get the brothers to come over to his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) By promising to share a joint with them.
(b) By offering them money.
(c) By saying that he wants to show them something.
(d) By saying that he has alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does the narrator use at the end of Page 27 about the pregnant woman's response to the brothers?

2. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?

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

4. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

5. Why is Ma worried about the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

(see the answer key)

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