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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, DUCKS - Chapter 15, TRASH KITES.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?
(a) Because Paps buys the truck without telling her, and it has no seats for the brothers.
(b) Because the family has not paid for all of it.
(c) Because it is old and rickety and will most likely break down.
(d) Because Paps tells Ma that it is his truck, and Ma cannot drive it.

3. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(b) Ma has not been showing up to work.
(c) To babysit the boys.
(d) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.

4. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Gentleman.
(c) The Robbers.
(d) The Monkeys.

5. What are Ma and Paps doing in the bathroom while the brothers bathe in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??
(a) Ma and Paps are both washing the boys.
(b) Flirting and playing with each other.
(c) Arguing about money.
(d) Ma is doing her make-up, and Paps is fixing the plumbing.

Short Answer Questions

1. After flying kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, Manny crawls into the narrator's bed and says that he had a dream about what?

2. What does Paps do when Ma yells at him, "This fucking big-dick truck" (64)?

3. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?

4. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?

5. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?

(see the answer key)

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