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

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

3. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Joel.
(c) Manny.
(d) Ma.

4. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To babysit the boys.
(b) Ma has not been showing up to work.
(c) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(d) To tell Ma she has been fired.

5. 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) "You grew" (46).
(c) "I thought you disappeared" (49).
(d) "Get my boots from the closet" (49).

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator know that Ma is delighted when Paps returns at the start of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

2. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

3. What promise does Paps eventually make to Ma about the truck?

4. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?

5. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?

(see the answer key)

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