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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. How does Ma respond to Paps worries at the end of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) "Don't. Don't you dare" (60).
(b) "Nobody" (60).
(c) "He's tired" (60).
(d) Ma says nothing and cries.

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

3. What predominant positive feeling does the narrator think to himself once he gets off the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) "There was no one to explain any of this to me" (113).
(b) "I am done pretending" (114).
(c) "My brothers will lose themselves tonight" (114).
(d) "And I was made" (115).

4. On the highway, why does a woman offer to bring the brothers anywhere they need to go?
(a) Because she sees that Paps and Ma are drunk.
(b) Because the brothers are alone outside the drugstore.
(c) Because they are sitting on the edge of a bridge on the highway alone.
(d) Because she notices they are having a physical fight.

5. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?
(a) Because Paps buys the truck without telling her, and it has no seats for the brothers.
(b) Because the family has not paid for all of it.
(c) Because it is old and rickety and will most likely break down.
(d) Because Paps tells Ma that it is his truck, and Ma cannot drive it.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the last page of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what is Paps sad/worried about?

2. What metaphor does the narrator use at the end of Page 27 about the pregnant woman's response to the brothers?

3. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?

4. The last line of the narrator's final thoughts are, "Upright, upright, I say, I slur, I vow" (125). How may this line be interpreted?

5. What color is the family's new truck?

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