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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. Why do the brothers have to be quiet in the mornings?
(a) Because the neighbors downstairs get angry if they hear noise.
(b) Because they have a new baby brother who is asleep.
(c) Because Ma is asleep.
(d) Because Paps is asleep.

2. What does Ma do while Paps is with the narrator in the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) Ma cries while sitting on the edge of her bed.
(b) Ma holds Manny and Joels as they cry.
(c) Ma leaves the house in the truck.
(d) Ma begins to pack up the narrator's clothing.

3. 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 upstate New York after the snow melted.
(c) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.
(d) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.

4. Why does the narrator say he is embarrassed by his brothers in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) Because they spoke to him in "sharpened insults" (108).
(b) Because of "their saggy clothes..." (108).
(c) Because they "cultivated a facility with language and a bitter spite" (108).
(d) Because "they snorted out little chuckles from their noses" (108).

5. What simile is used on Page 75 to describe the brothers leaning out the window watching Paps?
(a) "We pushed open the upstairs window and leaned out..." (75).
(b) "Someone had died, someone in the army" (75).
(c) "Still in our underwear, our skin one shade of deep summer brown..." (75).
(d) "We would have appeared to him like a three-torsoed beast" (75).

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

2. How does the narrator know Paps and Ma are fighting when Paps returns home in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

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

4. How many miles does the narrator walk to get to the bus station in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

5. What does the narrator hope Paps and Ma will do after the brothers' hide from them in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

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