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

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

3. What does the narrator believe Paps is really doing when he punishes his sons?
(a) Giving them an awakening.
(b) The narrator believes Paps is so drunk he does not know what he is doing.
(c) Taking his anger out on his sons instead of Ma.
(d) Preparing them to be strong to fight other boys.

4. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?
(a) Because the drugstore clerk asks the brothers to behave properly.
(b) Because Ma asks the brothers to be proper and stop playing games.
(c) Because the pregnant woman asks the brothers if they know how to be proper.
(d) Because Paps spanks the brothers and tells them to behave properly.

5. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?
(a) Manny tells the boys that Paps "don't know shit" (37).
(b) Manny tells the narrator that Paps "was still broken, still dead-eyed, but not dead" (36).
(c) Manny tells the boys that Paps "yelled that one word over and over, stop, stop, stop" (37).
(d) Manny says that "he'd picked up with another woman" (36).

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?

2. What kind of accent does Old Man have?

3. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?

4. Why is Ma worried about the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

5. Where does Ma work?

(see the answer key)

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