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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quote and Chapters 1, WE WANTED MORE - Chapter 4, SEVEN.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?
(a) Paps takes his sons to meet their grandparents.
(b) Paps dances in a Puerto Rican style.
(c) Paps shows his sons pictures of his childhood.
(d) Paps plays British music.

2. What does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?
(a) Boys are smart and wild.
(b) Boys should be bonded with many chains.
(c) Boys are wild beasts and hard to manage.
(d) Boys need to be punished when they disobey.

3. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The boys never feel seen or heard by Ma and Paps.
(b) It is a nickname for the days when the boys do not have to go to school.
(c) The boys chant this to Ma after squirting her.
(d) The boys worry that time will end, and they will die.

4. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?
(a) Because Paps is asleep.
(b) Because the neighbors downstairs get angry if they hear noise.
(c) Because Ma is asleep.
(d) Because they have a new baby brother who is asleep.

5. When the boys' father, Paps, comes home, how does he punish his sons?
(a) Paps makes the sons mow the lawn.
(b) Paps does not speak to his sons.
(c) Paps yells at his sons for hours.
(d) Paps spanks his sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool do the boys use to smash the tomatoes?

2. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?

3. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?

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

5. According to Ma, in Chapter 4, SEVEN, who "studies God"(13)?

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