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

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

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

4. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?
(a) Manny wants to tell them a story.
(b) Manny wants body heat.
(c) Manny is afraid of the dark.
(d) Manny does not have his own bed.

5. What does Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?
(a) A plate against the wall.
(b) A brass-handled mirror.
(c) A chair over Paps' head.
(d) A clock on the cold tile floor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

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

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

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