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

2. Why do the brothers have to go with Paps to work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) Because Ma is asleep at home, and they will wake her.
(b) Because Ma is working too, and no one is at home to watch them.
(c) Because Paps is afraid the boys will get in trouble.
(d) Because Paps needs extra help.

3. What is the subject of the narrator's journal?
(a) Fantasies about the men he has met at the bus station.
(b) The horrible parenting of Paps and Ma.
(c) Sexual observations of young women.
(d) Insulting language about his brothers.

4. After Manny's dream, what implied comparison is made about the dream to the brothers' current situation in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Manny compares the brothers to "a fistful of seed that God tossed into the mud" (84).
(b) Manny compares the brothers to the other neighborhood kids who have no futures.
(c) Manny compares the brothers to prisoners in Paps' house.
(d) Manny compares the brothers to "a whole sky full of kites" (84).

5. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The way they looked when they were born.
(b) The family's sullied house.
(c) The birth of baby robins.
(d) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?

2. What does Ma do while Paps is with the narrator in the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

3. Instead of an open field, where does Manny think the brothers should have slept to elude Paps in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

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

5. What does Ma say to the brothers at the park while they are hiding in a canoe?

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