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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE - Chapter 19, ZOOKEEPING.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
(a) Pull the baby robins out of their nest, throw them in the air, and see if they can fly.
(b) Pull off the baby robins' heads.
(c) Throw them into shoeboxes.
(d) Kill them.

2. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?
(a) Because Ma asks the brothers to be proper and stop playing games.
(b) Because the drugstore clerk asks the brothers to behave properly.
(c) Because the pregnant woman asks the brothers if they know how to be proper.
(d) Because Paps spanks the brothers and tells them to behave properly.

3. Why is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?
(a) Because he is afraid of drowning.
(b) Because he is from Canada.
(c) Because he grew up away from the water.
(d) Because he has never seen water before.

4. What about previous experiences in the novel may have led the author to title the last Chapter, ZOOKEEPING?
(a) Because the narrator mentions his animal-like characteristics and beliefs throughout the story.
(b) Because of the treatment the narrator receives during his stay at the psychiatric ward.
(c) Because the other patients at the psychiatric ward act like animals.
(d) Because the narrator becomes an animal by being around other psychiatric patients.

5. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) Frosting and candles.
(b) A glass dish.
(c) A stick of butter.
(d) A cup of sugar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joel say is the reason for Paps' digging a hole in the backyard?

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

3. Initially, what does the bus driver ask the narrator in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

4. What does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?

5. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?

(see the answer key)

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