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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 Ma feel about the phone ringing in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Scared.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Happy.
(d) She shows no emotion.

2. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?
(a) Milk for her baby.
(b) Money for rent.
(c) Change for her baby.
(d) An adult magazine.

3. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?
(a) Because they will quickly fly away back to their house.
(b) Because locusts are ugly like the boys.
(c) Because they are damaging his garden.
(d) Because they are both in his garden.

4. 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) Ma and Paps' relationship and it affects their situation and futures.
(c) The brothers always being spanked after school.
(d) The family being poor and not able to support themselves.

5. When the family car breaks down in the rain, what does Paps use to protect the brothers?
(a) An old blanket.
(b) Plastic bags.
(c) His jacket.
(d) Old magazines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

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

3. What job does Paps finally get?

4. Why do the brothers run their fingers around the empty bowls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

5. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

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