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

2. 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.

3. Why is Paps going to Niagara Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) Paps wants to see the beautiful scenery of Niagara Falls.
(b) Looking for a job.
(c) To drive a package.
(d) To fly a package.

4. What does Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?
(a) Animals and orphans.
(b) Animals and locusts.
(c) Burglars and orphans.
(d) Stupid and poor.

5. Why do the brothers call themselves, "Ma's militia" (80)?
(a) The brothers are sitting around the hole to protect Ma from being buried alive.
(b) The brothers stand near Ma as she smokes on the porch, so that she does not hurt herself.
(c) The brothers are sitting next to Ma while she sleeps to protect her from Paps.
(d) The brothers believe that they are really in the army and can fight anyone who comes near the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?

2. Where does Ma work?

3. What does Manny walk toward after seeing the headbanger in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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