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

2. Why do the brothers have to get up quickly and leave Paps' work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) Because Paps' is late to his second job.
(b) Because Paps' shift is over.
(c) Because Paps' co-worker shows up to take over.
(d) Because Paps' does not want them to see him cheating on Ma.

3. When the boys' father, Paps, comes home, how does he punish his sons?
(a) Paps spanks his sons.
(b) Paps does not speak to his sons.
(c) Paps yells at his sons for hours.
(d) Paps makes the sons mow the lawn.

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

5. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).
(b) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(c) Ma states that with her older sons she no longer had to "shy away" (17).
(d) Ma states that with her older sons she had to "meet taught with tough" (17).

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 last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?

3. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?

4. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?

5. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?

(see the answer key)

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