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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. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?
(a) Third person point of view.
(b) First person point of view.
(c) Second person point of view.
(d) Third person omniscient point of view.

2. In the last paragraph of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME, what does the narrator imply the brothers "need" (51)?
(a) Paps to get a steady job.
(b) Their parents' love and attention.
(c) Their parents to stop fighting.
(d) More freedom.

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

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

5. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?
(a) Because they are smashing tomatoes in the kitchen and the guts will ruin their clothes.
(b) Because Ma will not let them take the raincoats off.
(c) Because they spray water on each other as a game.
(d) Because there are leaks all over the house, and they may get wet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Ma and Paps doing in the bathroom while the brothers bathe in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??

2. What does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?

3. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?

4. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?

5. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?

(see the answer key)

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