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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. How does the narrator know Paps and Ma are fighting when Paps returns home in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) He hears them stomping around and furniture tumbling.
(b) Paps is shouting.
(c) The narrator is in the kitchen and can hear Ma crying.
(d) He can hear them outside on the porch.

2. What does Lina call Ma after arriving at the narrator's house?
(a) Little One.
(b) Amiga.
(c) Shorty.
(d) Comrade.

3. What does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?
(a) Chocolate milk.
(b) Ketchup.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Water and salt.

4. Whys is Ma upset that Paps gets a new truck for the family?
(a) The truck does not have enough seats or seatbelts for the boys.
(b) She wanted a car - not a truck.
(c) Paps wasted all of their savings on a fancy truck.
(d) Paps stole the truck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

2. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?

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

4. What state do Ma and Paps travel to to get married?

5. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

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