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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 Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?
(a) Ketchup.
(b) Chocolate milk.
(c) Water and salt.
(d) Maple syrup.

2. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?
(a) The narrator does not have a birthday.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

3. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) A glass dish.
(b) Frosting and candles.
(c) A stick of butter.
(d) A cup of sugar.

4. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?
(a) First person point of view.
(b) Second person point of view.
(c) Third person omniscient point of view.
(d) Third person point of view.

5. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?
(a) Tito Puente.
(b) Hector Puente.
(c) An old band the boys have never heard before.
(d) Maria Constatine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ma work?

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

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

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

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

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