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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 it is Sunday.
(b) Because it is the middle of the night.
(c) Because it is a holiday.
(d) Because they closed down before the family arrives.

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

3. 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 so hungry and want all the food there is left.
(c) Because they are curious what the food tastes like.
(d) Because there is excess frosting left in the bowls.

4. How does Ma respond to Paps worries at the end of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) "Nobody" (60).
(b) "He's tired" (60).
(c) "Don't. Don't you dare" (60).
(d) Ma says nothing and cries.

5. What metaphor does the narrator use at the end of Page 27 about the pregnant woman's response to the brothers?
(a) She is "concrete and howled."
(b) She is "curious, rubbing her palms slowly."
(c) She is "half gruff, half troll."
(d) She is "drinking us [the brothers] in."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ma wear for the family's first drive in the truck?

3. At the start of the novel, how many boys, also brothers, are introduced?

4. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?

5. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?

(see the answer key)

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