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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS - Chapter 17, NIAGRA.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator hope Paps and Ma will do after the brothers' hide from them in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) Dance around the bathroom and never find the brothers.
(b) Leave the bathroom and never fight again.
(c) Find the brothers and embrace them.
(d) Paps will kiss Ma and then hug the brothers.

2. Instead of an open field, where does Manny think the brothers should have slept to elude Paps in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In their neighbor's camper.
(c) In a field with more trees.
(d) In an abandoned barn.

3. What do the brothers do with the blue rubber pall to play the sidewalk chalk circle game?
(a) Smack the ball with their palms.
(b) Kick the ball to one another.
(c) Throw the ball high up in the air and try to catch it.
(d) Pass the ball from one brothers to the next.

4. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?
(a) Ma was in a bad car accident and hit her face on the steering wheel.
(b) Ma got into a fight at work with Lina, her co-worker.
(c) Ma fell down the stairs when she was drunk.
(d) Ma was punched in the face by the dentist to loosen her teeth before pulling them.

5. What does Manny walk toward after seeing the headbanger in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) The woods.
(b) Home.
(c) A log.
(d) The headbanger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?

2. Who is sitting in the living room at the Grices' house when the boys arrive in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

3. How does Ma feel about the phone ringing in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

4. What is the subject of the video in the museum, where the narrator is dropped off at in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

5. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?

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