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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. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?
(a) Because they spray water on each other as a game.
(b) Because Ma will not let them take the raincoats off.
(c) Because they are smashing tomatoes in the kitchen and the guts will ruin their clothes.
(d) Because there are leaks all over the house, and they may get wet.

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

3. At the start of the novel, how many boys, also brothers, are introduced?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

4. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?
(a) Because it is a holiday.
(b) because it is Sunday.
(c) Because it is the middle of the night.
(d) Because they closed down before the family arrives.

5. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Pull off the baby robins' heads.
(c) Throw them into shoeboxes.
(d) Pull the baby robins out of their nest, throw them in the air, and see if they can fly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator believe Paps is really doing when he punishes his sons?

3. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?

4. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

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

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