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

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

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

4. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).
(b) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(c) Ma states that with her older sons she no longer had to "shy away" (17).
(d) Ma states that with her older sons she had to "meet taught with tough" (17).

5. What does Paps say to the narrator as he dries him off in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) "Get my boots from the closet" (49).
(b) "I thought you disappeared" (49).
(c) Paps jokes "about needing to make some more boys to take our [the brothers'] places" (46).
(d) "You grew" (46).

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lina from?

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

3. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?

4. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?

5. How does the narrator know Paps and Ma are fighting when Paps returns home in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

(see the answer key)

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