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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9, TALK TO ME - Chapter 12, BIG-DICK TRUCK.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?
(a) Paps finishes cleaning the bathroom, while Ma watches and sings.
(b) Paps leaves the bathroom and Ma puts on her make-up.
(c) Paps dances with Ma to music.
(d) Kissing and moaning.

2. In the crawlspace, the narrator asks Joel, "It's just going to be like this forever?" (43). What is the narrator referring to?
(a) Paps' abusive ways and how they will get out of the situation.
(b) The brothers always being spanked after school.
(c) Ma and Paps' relationship and it affects their situation and futures.
(d) The family being poor and not able to support themselves.

3. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?
(a) Fight over where the brothers are hiding.
(b) Give each other massages.
(c) Have sex.
(d) Kiss and dance.

4. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?
(a) Paps dances in a Puerto Rican style.
(b) Paps plays British music.
(c) Paps takes his sons to meet their grandparents.
(d) Paps shows his sons pictures of his childhood.

5. How does Ma respond to Paps worries at the end of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) "He's tired" (60).
(b) "Don't. Don't you dare" (60).
(c) Ma says nothing and cries.
(d) "Nobody" (60).

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

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

3. What color is the family's new truck?

4. Whys is Ma upset that Paps gets a new truck for the family?

5. What promise does Paps eventually make to Ma about the truck?

(see the answer key)

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