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

2. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?
(a) The narrator does not have a birthday.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

3. Who in the family does not know how to swim when they go to the lake?
(a) Ma and Manny.
(b) Manny and the narrator.
(c) Ma and the narrator.
(d) Joel.

4. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.
(b) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.
(c) In upstate New York after the snow melted.
(d) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.

5. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?
(a) "[A] woman" (24).
(b) "[B]urglars" (25).
(c) "[A] ladder" (24).
(d) The "Three Musketeers" (24).

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the way Paps and Ma are dressed during the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??

2. What happens when Ma crawls down into the hole and lies down in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

3. On the highway, why does a woman offer to bring the brothers anywhere they need to go?

4. Why does Paps take the narrator to Niagara Falls and not Joel and Manny?

5. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?

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