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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 is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?
(a) Because he grew up away from the water.
(b) Because he is afraid of drowning.
(c) Because he is from Canada.
(d) Because he has never seen water before.

2. What is unusual about the way Paps and Ma are dressed during the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??
(a) They are shirtless.
(b) They are fully naked.
(c) They are both wearing boots and heavy jackets.
(d) They are wearing very fancy clothes.

3. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) A box of old photos of Ma and Paps.
(b) Their old clothes and toys.
(c) A gun.
(d) An old yellow phone.

4. What does Paps say to the narrator as he dries him off in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) "Get my boots from the closet" (49).
(b) Paps jokes "about needing to make some more boys to take our [the brothers'] places" (46).
(c) "You grew" (46).
(d) "I thought you disappeared" (49).

5. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.
(b) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.
(c) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.
(d) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma break after seeing her face all bruised and swollen in the mirror?

2. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?

3. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

4. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?

5. What does Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?

(see the answer key)

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