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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of the video in the museum, where the narrator is dropped off at in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) People born with two pupils to each eye or forked tongues.
(b) Men in barrels as they go over the Falls.
(c) The history of the Falls.
(d) Men discussing the intensity of the Falls.

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

3. Where does the headbanger bring the brothers at his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) His bedroom.
(b) The living room.
(c) The basement.
(d) The garage.

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

5. What does the headbanger look like?
(a) White-blonde hair down his back, and it is cut short at the sides and front.
(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) Dirty clothes and oily skin.

6. Instead of an open field, where does Manny think the brothers should have slept to elude Paps in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) In a field with more trees.
(b) In their neighbor's camper.
(c) In the woods.
(d) In an abandoned barn.

7. What predominant positive feeling does the narrator think to himself once he gets off the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) "My brothers will lose themselves tonight" (114).
(b) "There was no one to explain any of this to me" (113).
(c) "I am done pretending" (114).
(d) "And I was made" (115).

8. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE, subsection: "MIDNIGHT," what do Manny and Joel say in connection to a negative view of the narrator?
(a) Paps is capable of destroying the narrator for his weird behavior.
(b) Manny is capable of destroying the narrator.
(c) The headbanger is capable of attacking the narrator.
(d) The narrator is capable of destroying himself.

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

10. What do the brothers do with the blue rubber pall to play the sidewalk chalk circle game?
(a) Kick the ball to one another.
(b) Throw the ball high up in the air and try to catch it.
(c) Smack the ball with their palms.
(d) Pass the ball from one brothers to the next.

11. What does the narrator notice in the back of the truck on the way to the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) Something wrapped up in an old rug.
(b) The brothers' toys are placed in bins.
(c) Plastic bags filled with the brothers' clothes, papers, and pictures.
(d) A man hiding underneath a blanket.

12. What does Manny scream at while Paps is beating him for going to the field in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) "I hate you!"
(b) "Thief!"
(c) "You're no father!"
(d) "Murderer!"

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

14. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE (subsection, "MIDNIGHT"), where does Joel believe the empty alcohol bottle touches down?
(a) On a squirrel in a tree.
(b) It shatters against a tree.
(c) On a parked car.
(d) In a raccoon's mouth.

15. At the start of Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS, how many sections do the brothers separate their sidewalk chalk circle into?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between the bus driver and the narrator in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

2. What does the narrator do in the theater at the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

3. What is the final act of kindness Paps shows toward the narrator?

4. When the narrator says that he expects Manny to talk back to the headbanger, what can the reader infer about the narrator's opinion of Manny?

5. What is the Grices' son, the headbanger, carrying when he comes outside in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

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