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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What contemplation does the narrator have about his journal after being brought to the psychiatric ward?
(a) If he is not really gay, but that he was merely making up stories.
(b) If he should have burnt the journal in the woods.
(c) If he wrote the journal purposely knowing and wanting others to read it.
(d) If one of his brothers will be able to relate to what he wrote.

2. After flying kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, Manny crawls into the narrator's bed and says that he had a dream about what?
(a) All types of kites mixed up together.
(b) Kites being hit by lightening and burning up.
(c) That the kites wrapped around Paps and took Paps away.
(d) The boys running away to the woods.

3. How is the reader initially tipped off that the headbanger is showing the brothers a pornographic movie?
(a) Because Manny tells the narrator that they are going to watch pornography.
(b) Because the headbanger's dad yells at them for watching adult movies.
(c) Because the narrator remembers a memory of Paps explaining pornography to him.
(d) Because the narrator sees the title of the movie posted on the side of it.

4. Who do the brothers imitate while playing their chalk circle game in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) An unruly neighbor.
(b) Lina.
(c) Ma.
(d) Paps.

5. What about previous experiences in the novel may have led the author to title the last Chapter, ZOOKEEPING?
(a) Because of the treatment the narrator receives during his stay at the psychiatric ward.
(b) Because the narrator becomes an animal by being around other psychiatric patients.
(c) Because the narrator mentions his animal-like characteristics and beliefs throughout the story.
(d) Because the other patients at the psychiatric ward act like animals.

6. How many miles does the narrator walk to get to the bus station in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

7. Why does Paps take the narrator to Niagara Falls and not Joel and Manny?
(a) Because Joel and Manny are grounded for getting into a fight.
(b) Because Joel and Manny have already seen Niagara Falls.
(c) Because Joel and Manny get sick with chicken pox.
(d) Because Joel and Manny are flunking out of school and cannot miss more days.

8. What simile is used on Page 75 to describe the brothers leaning out the window watching Paps?
(a) "Someone had died, someone in the army" (75).
(b) "We would have appeared to him like a three-torsoed beast" (75).
(c) "We pushed open the upstairs window and leaned out..." (75).
(d) "Still in our underwear, our skin one shade of deep summer brown..." (75).

9. What does the headbanger look like?
(a) Dirty clothes and oily skin.
(b) Short-blond hair and acne pocks on his face.
(c) He wears shorts and a tank-top, even when it is cold outside.
(d) White-blonde hair down his back, and it is cut short at the sides and front.

10. Who is the first brother to go into the hole in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) Joel.
(b) Manny.
(c) The narrator.
(d) All of the brothers go into the hole at the same time.

11. Why does the narrator get on the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) To use the bathroom.
(b) To get away from the snow.
(c) To hide from his brothers.
(d) To eat some food and warm up.

12. What is the Grices' son, the headbanger, carrying when he comes outside in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A bat.
(d) An open cell phone.

13. What do the narrator and Paps eat after leaving the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Hot dogs.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Hamburgers.

14. What does the narrator think while Paps holds him over the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) "Wasn't no one there to stop this" (96).
(b) "I wanted him [Paps] to let me go and die" (99).
(c) "Why won't you look at me?" (97).
(d) "You're going to learn your lesson" (96).

15. What food do the brothers find in Ma's purse at the park?
(a) Beer pretzels.
(b) Licorice.
(c) A chocolate bar.
(d) Crackers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?

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

3. Out on the loading dock in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the narrator and his brothers look toward?

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 particular name does Paps use with the narrator before the narrator leaves for the psychiatric ward?

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