3. 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.

4. What does Ma say to Paps on the way home from the lake?
(a) "He is going to learn" (21).
(b) "How else do you expect to him learn?" (21).
(c) "What? Do you want me to teach him how to fly?" (22).
(d) "He's alive! He's alive!" (23)

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

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

7. How does the narrator know that Ma is delighted when Paps returns at the start of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) Because she "sent us [brothers] winks" (44).
(b) Because she "herded us [brothers] into the kitchen" (44).
(c) Because she "made motorboat noises" (44).
(d) Because she "led us [brothers] to the bathtub" (44).

8. What does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?
(a) Ketchup.
(b) Chocolate milk.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Water and salt.

9. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?
(a) First person point of view.
(b) Second person point of view.
(c) Third person omniscient point of view.
(d) Third person point of view.

10. How does Ma feel about the phone ringing in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Happy.
(b) She shows no emotion.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Scared.

11. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?
(a) Tito Puente.
(b) An old band the boys have never heard before.
(c) Maria Constatine.
(d) Hector Puente.

12. What does Paps say to the narrator as he dries him off in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) "Get my boots from the closet" (49).
(b) "You grew" (46).
(c) Paps jokes "about needing to make some more boys to take our [the brothers'] places" (46).
(d) "I thought you disappeared" (49).

13. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).
(b) Ma states that with her older sons she no longer had to "shy away" (17).
(c) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(d) Ma states that with her older sons she had to "meet taught with tough" (17).

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

15. 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.