1. What simile is used to compare Paps' shouting on Page 23?
(a) Paps' shouting is compared to a marvel of his creation.
(b) Paps' shouting is compared to a bobbing mass.
(c) Paps' shouting is compared to a mad scientist.
(d) Paps' shouting is compared to black-green murkiness.

2. Who is incessantly calling the narrator's house at the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Paps.
(b) Ma.
(c) Lina.
(d) The narrator.

3. 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) The narrator is in the kitchen and can hear Ma crying.
(c) He can hear them outside on the porch.
(d) Paps is shouting.

4. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.
(b) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.
(c) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.
(d) In upstate New York after the snow melted.

5. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(b) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.
(c) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.
(d) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).