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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reader led to believe by what is in the back of the truck in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) That Ma may be leaving Paps.
(b) That Paps may want to hurt Ma.
(c) That the brothers are running away.
(d) That the family is taking a vacation.

2. What does Joel say is the reason for Paps' digging a hole in the backyard?
(a) A grave for Manny.
(b) A trench.
(c) A grave for himself.
(d) A grave for Ma.

3. Why is the narrator frightened by what his brothers want to do to the Grices' camper in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) He is afraid they will be punished.
(b) He is afraid they will hurt someone.
(c) He is afraid Paps is watching them.
(d) He is afraid they will be arrested.

4. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE, subsection: "MIDNIGHT," what does the narrator share with the reader about Paps and Ma?
(a) Paps and Ma do not treat the narrator as well as his brothers, and they feel regret about it.
(b) Paps and Ma are getting a divorce.
(c) Paps and Ma have told the narrator his brothers are stupid.
(d) Paps and Ma have had conversations with him about his potential.

5. After Manny's dream, what implied comparison is made about the dream to the brothers' current situation in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Manny compares the brothers to prisoners in Paps' house.
(b) Manny compares the brothers to "a fistful of seed that God tossed into the mud" (84).
(c) Manny compares the brothers to "a whole sky full of kites" (84).
(d) Manny compares the brothers to the other neighborhood kids who have no futures.

6. Hypothetically, what animal would the brothers feed the woman's brains to in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) The lake.
(b) The ducks.
(c) The fish.
(d) Dogs.

7. What is the final act of kindness Paps shows toward the narrator?
(a) Paps holds the narrator and rocks him back and forth.
(b) Paps takes the narrator into the narrator's bedroom and helps him gather his clothes.
(c) Paps sings a song to the narrator, so the narrator is able to fall asleep.
(d) Paps gently and meticulously bathes the narrator.

8. Who goes to the park at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) The brothers go to the park alone, but Ma comes and finds them.
(b) Ma goes to the park alone, and the brothers come find her.
(c) Ma and the brothers.
(d) The brothers and the headbanger.

9. On the highway, why does a woman offer to bring the brothers anywhere they need to go?
(a) Because she sees that Paps and Ma are drunk.
(b) Because they are sitting on the edge of a bridge on the highway alone.
(c) Because the brothers are alone outside the drugstore.
(d) Because she notices they are having a physical fight.

10. What is the tone of the narrator's portrayal on page 103 of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE,?
(a) Confused and alone.
(b) Sullen and hopeless.
(c) Negative and judgmental.
(d) Jubilant and hopeful.

11. What name does Manny call the woman trying to help them?
(a) Bitch.
(b) Nosy.
(c) Slut.
(d) Stupid.

12. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the white trash boys have that the narrator's brothers do not?
(a) "[M]uscles, bulged like knots on a rope" (103).
(b) "[P]et snakes in glass aquariums" (104).
(c) "[P]unched-out teeth, bad bread, easy winks" (104).
(d) "[L]egacies, decades upon decades of poverty..."(104).

13. How does the headbanger get the brothers to come over to his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) By promising to share a joint with them.
(b) By offering them money.
(c) By saying that he has alcohol.
(d) By saying that he wants to show them something.

14. How much older is the Grices' son, the headbanger, than Manny?
(a) Five years older than Manny.
(b) The same age as Manny.
(c) Two years older than Manny.
(d) One year older than Manny.

15. How does the narrator's family react when he first arrives at home from the bus station in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) They are "calm and assured" (116).
(b) They "looked...with such ferocity" (116).
(c) They spoke to him "in bold and explicit language" (116).
(d) They "imagined perversions" (116).

Short Answer Questions

1. What memory does the narrator bring to mind at the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?

2. Overall, how do the brothers prove they are "tough guys" (68) when they arrive at the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

3. What is the subject of the video in the museum, where the narrator is dropped off at in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

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

5. What does Ma do while Paps is with the narrator in the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

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