2. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?
(a) Cigarettes or whiskey.
(b) Gum and cigarettes.
(c) Booze and candy.
(d) Cigarettes or beer.

3. How does Ma respond when Manny asks worriedly if Paps is having a heart attack in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) "What heart?" (41).
(b) "That's all there is" (40).
(c) Ma "unlaced her work boots, slipped off her socks, and massaged her feet" (40).
(d) Ma dismisses Manny.

4. What state do Ma and Paps travel to to get married?
(a) Texas.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Pennsylvania.

5. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?
(a) Because locusts are ugly like the boys.
(b) Because they will quickly fly away back to their house.
(c) Because they are damaging his garden.
(d) Because they are both in his garden.

6. What color is the family's new truck?
(a) Cobalt blue.
(b) Dark rusty brown.
(c) Blood orange.
(d) Fire engine red.

7. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?
(a) Paps plays British music.
(b) Paps shows his sons pictures of his childhood.
(c) Paps takes his sons to meet their grandparents.
(d) Paps dances in a Puerto Rican style.

8. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?
(a) Because they spray water on each other as a game.
(b) Because there are leaks all over the house, and they may get wet.
(c) Because they are smashing tomatoes in the kitchen and the guts will ruin their clothes.
(d) Because Ma will not let them take the raincoats off.

9. What is unusual about the way Paps and Ma are dressed during the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??
(a) They are fully naked.
(b) They are shirtless.
(c) They are wearing very fancy clothes.
(d) They are both wearing boots and heavy jackets.

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

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

12. Instead of immediately searching for the brothers after the bath, what do Paps and Ma do?
(a) Paps leaves the bathroom and Ma puts on her make-up.
(b) Paps finishes cleaning the bathroom, while Ma watches and sings.
(c) Kissing and moaning.
(d) Paps dances with Ma to music.

13. What is the weather like when the narrator's family goes to the lake?
(a) It is rainy.
(b) There is a nice warm breeze.
(c) The air is cold and crisp.
(d) There is a heat wave.

14. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) It is a nickname for the days when the boys do not have to go to school.
(b) The boys chant this to Ma after squirting her.
(c) The boys worry that time will end, and they will die.
(d) The boys never feel seen or heard by Ma and Paps.

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) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(d) Ma has not been showing up to work.