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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 does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?
(a) Boys need to be punished when they disobey.
(b) Boys are smart and wild.
(c) Boys should be bonded with many chains.
(d) Boys are wild beasts and hard to manage.

2. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?
(a) "How else do you expect to him learn?" (21).
(b) "He is going to learn" (21).
(c) "He's alive! He's alive!" (23)
(d) "What? Do you want me to teach him how to fly?" (22).

3. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?
(a) Paps dances with Ma to music.
(b) Paps finishes cleaning the bathroom, while Ma watches and sings.
(c) Kissing and moaning.
(d) Paps leaves the bathroom and Ma puts on her make-up.

4. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 14.

5. On the last page of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what is Paps sad/worried about?
(a) Whether the brothers will have to go live with their grandparents.
(b) That the family will not be able to pay rent.
(c) That the family, and more importantly, the brothers will never escape this difficult life.
(d) Whether Ma will leave him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?

2. In the last paragraph of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME, what does the narrator imply the brothers "need" (51)?

3. When the family car breaks down in the rain, what does Paps use to protect the brothers?

4. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

5. Why do the brothers have to get up quickly and leave Paps' work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?

(see the answer key)

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