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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, THE LAKE - Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?
(a) Because Paps spanks the brothers and tells them to behave properly.
(b) Because the drugstore clerk asks the brothers to behave properly.
(c) Because the pregnant woman asks the brothers if they know how to be proper.
(d) Because Ma asks the brothers to be proper and stop playing games.

2. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?
(a) "Ascend."
(b) "Assimilate."
(c) "Rise."
(d) "Descend."

3. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?
(a) Manny is 9 years old, and Joel is 8 years old.
(b) Manny is 9 years old, and Joel is 7 years old.
(c) Manny is 14 years old, and Joel is 12 years old.
(d) Manny is 10 years old, and Joel is 8 years old.

4. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To babysit the boys.
(b) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(c) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(d) Ma has not been showing up to work.

5. 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) A stick of butter.
(c) A cup of sugar.
(d) Frosting and candles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?

4. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?

5. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?

(see the answer key)

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