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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. Where is Lina from?
(a) China.
(b) New York.
(c) The paper mill.
(d) The drugstore.

2. What does Paps do when Ma yells at him, "This fucking big-dick truck" (64)?
(a) Paps ignores Ma and drives away after she yells.
(b) Paps slaps Ma across the face after she yells.
(c) Paps piles the boys in the truck and drives off after Ma yells.
(d) Paps storms inside to confront Ma directly at her rage.

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

4. Why do the brothers run their fingers around the empty bowls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Because they are angry all the food is gone.
(b) Because they are curious what the food tastes like.
(c) Because they are so hungry and want all the food there is left.
(d) Because there is excess frosting left in the bowls.

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

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

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

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

5. What simile is used to compare Paps' shouting on Page 23?

(see the answer key)

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