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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What simile is used to compare Paps' shouting on Page 23?
(a) Paps' shouting is compared to a mad scientist.
(b) Paps' shouting is compared to black-green murkiness.
(c) Paps' shouting is compared to a marvel of his creation.
(d) Paps' shouting is compared to a bobbing mass.

2. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?
(a) "Rise."
(b) "Assimilate."
(c) "Descend."
(d) "Ascend."

3. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?
(a) God.
(b) The Holy Spirit.
(c) The Father.
(d) The Son.

4. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?
(a) Joel.
(b) Manny.
(c) Ma.
(d) The narrator.

5. What kind of accent does Old Man have?
(a) Missouri accent.
(b) French accent.
(c) Southern accent.
(d) Spanish accent.

6. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Robbers.
(c) The Monkeys.
(d) The Gentleman.

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

8. When Paps and the brothers return home from Paps' job in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what are they shouting?
(a) "He crying?" (58).
(b) "Stop, stop" (59).
(c) "Thump, thump, thump" (58).
(d) "No More Crying! No More Crying!" (59).

9. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?
(a) Ma says that it "rained down silver jingles" (27).
(b) Ma says that Manny was "growing, heart ticking like a time bomb" (26).
(c) Ma says that Manny's, "eyes were wet, black-holey - no fear there, no disgust, no pity" (27).
(d) Ma says that Manny was "mixed up" (26).

10. How does the narrator know Paps and Ma are fighting when Paps returns home in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) The narrator is in the kitchen and can hear Ma crying.
(b) Paps is shouting.
(c) He hears them stomping around and furniture tumbling.
(d) He can hear them outside on the porch.

11. Who is incessantly calling the narrator's house at the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Lina.
(b) Ma.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Paps.

12. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?
(a) Because it is a holiday.
(b) because it is Sunday.
(c) Because they closed down before the family arrives.
(d) Because it is the middle of the night.

13. 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) A cup of sugar.
(b) A glass dish.
(c) Frosting and candles.
(d) A stick of butter.

14. According to Ma, in Chapter 4, SEVEN, who "studies God"(13)?
(a) Monks.
(b) Good boys.
(c) Nuns.
(d) Priests.

15. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(b) To babysit the boys.
(c) Ma has not been showing up to work.
(d) To tell Ma she has been fired.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?

2. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?

3. At the start of the novel, how many boys, also brothers, are introduced?

4. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?

5. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?

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