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

2. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?
(a) "What? Do you want me to teach him how to fly?" (22).
(b) "He is going to learn" (21).
(c) "How else do you expect to him learn?" (21).
(d) "He's alive! He's alive!" (23)

3. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?
(a) Ma was punched in the face by the dentist to loosen her teeth before pulling them.
(b) Ma was in a bad car accident and hit her face on the steering wheel.
(c) Ma fell down the stairs when she was drunk.
(d) Ma got into a fight at work with Lina, her co-worker.

4. Overall, how do the brothers prove they are "tough guys" (68) when they arrive at the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) By ganging up on each other.
(b) By "taking nothing but dares and putdowns" (68).
(c) By throwing rocks at the ducks.
(d) By holding each other "hostage in the air" (68).

5. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The way they looked when they were born.
(b) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.
(c) The birth of baby robins.
(d) The family's sullied house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Paps most likely give the brothers a bath when he arrives at home in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??

2. Why does Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

3. Why do the brothers call themselves, "Ma's militia" (80)?

4. What does Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?

5. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

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