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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 the narrator believe Paps is really doing when he punishes his sons?
(a) Giving them an awakening.
(b) Taking his anger out on his sons instead of Ma.
(c) Preparing them to be strong to fight other boys.
(d) The narrator believes Paps is so drunk he does not know what he is doing.

2. 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 family's sullied house.
(d) The birth of baby robins.

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

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

5. Where does Ma work?
(a) A clothing store in the city.
(b) Ma does not work.
(c) As a housekeeper at a hotel.
(d) The brewery up the hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?

2. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?

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

4. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?

5. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?

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