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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. In the last paragraph of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME, what does the narrator imply the brothers "need" (51)?
(a) Their parents to stop fighting.
(b) Their parents' love and attention.
(c) More freedom.
(d) Paps to get a steady job.

2. What is the weather like when the narrator's family goes to the lake?
(a) It is rainy.
(b) There is a heat wave.
(c) The air is cold and crisp.
(d) There is a nice warm breeze.

3. How does the narrator know that Ma is delighted when Paps returns at the start of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) Because she "led us [brothers] to the bathtub" (44).
(b) Because she "sent us [brothers] winks" (44).
(c) Because she "made motorboat noises" (44).
(d) Because she "herded us [brothers] into the kitchen" (44).

4. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The boys never feel seen or heard by Ma and Paps.
(b) The boys chant this to Ma after squirting her.
(c) The boys worry that time will end, and they will die.
(d) It is a nickname for the days when the boys do not have to go to school.

5. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?
(a) Because they closed down before the family arrives.
(b) Because it is a holiday.
(c) because it is Sunday.
(d) Because it is the middle of the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?

2. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?

3. What color is the family's new truck?

4. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?

5. What does the narrator hope Paps and Ma will do after the brothers' hide from them in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

(see the answer key)

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