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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 tool do the boys use to smash the tomatoes?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A mallet.
(c) A big rock.
(d) A stick.

2. What subject is Manny always trying to teach the narrator and Joel about as brought up in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP US?
(a) Their parents' relationship.
(b) How to fish.
(c) God.
(d) Sex.

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

4. What color is the family's new truck?
(a) Fire engine red.
(b) Blood orange.
(c) Dark rusty brown.
(d) Cobalt blue.

5. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?
(a) "Rise."
(b) "Ascend."
(c) "Assimilate."
(d) "Descend."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?

2. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?

3. What simile is used on Page 75 to describe the brothers leaning out the window watching Paps?

4. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?

5. What do the narrator and Paps eat after leaving the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

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