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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. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?
(a) Leave the bites alone to heal.
(b) Spit on their bites.
(c) Cut a cross on the bites with their fingernails.
(d) Put a special lotion he has on the bites.

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

3. How does Manny specifically explain black magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) As mushrooms that puff out a yellow smoke of spores when squeezed.
(b) As voodoo, snake-charming, and poison.
(c) It is hell and the devil.
(d) It is poison and darkness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think while Paps holds him over the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

2. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?

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

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

5. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?

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