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

2. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?
(a) Have sex.
(b) Kiss and dance.
(c) Fight over where the brothers are hiding.
(d) Give each other massages.

3. What does Paps do when Ma yells at him, "This fucking big-dick truck" (64)?
(a) Paps storms inside to confront Ma directly at her rage.
(b) Paps ignores Ma and drives away after she yells.
(c) Paps piles the boys in the truck and drives off after Ma yells.
(d) Paps slaps Ma across the face after she yells.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

2. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?

3. In the crawlspace, the narrator asks Joel, "It's just going to be like this forever?" (43). What is the narrator referring to?

4. What are Ma and Paps doing in the bathroom while the brothers bathe in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??

5. What does the narrator believe Paps is really doing when he punishes his sons?

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