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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. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The family's sullied house.
(b) The birth of baby robins.
(c) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.
(d) The way they looked when they were born.

2. What does Lina call Ma after arriving at the narrator's house?
(a) Shorty.
(b) Comrade.
(c) Little One.
(d) Amiga.

3. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?
(a) Put a special lotion he has on the bites.
(b) Spit on their bites.
(c) Leave the bites alone to heal.
(d) Cut a cross on the bites with their fingernails.

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

5. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?
(a) "He's alive! He's alive!" (23)
(b) "He is going to learn" (21).
(c) "What? Do you want me to teach him how to fly?" (22).
(d) "How else do you expect to him learn?" (21).

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?

2. How does the narrator know Paps and Ma are fighting when Paps returns home in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

3. What does Paps do when Ma yells at him, "This fucking big-dick truck" (64)?

4. What does Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?

5. On the last page of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what is Paps sad/worried about?

(see the answer key)

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