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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the narrator's fight with Joel and Manny toward the end of the novel, what does Manny want the narrator to do?
(a) Go back to the loading dock.
(b) Fight him.
(c) Admit that the narrator is fucked up.
(d) Walk home alone.

2. Where does Ma say she has always wanted to visit in Chapter 13, THE DUCKS?
(a) New York City.
(b) Puerto Rica.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

3. 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?
(a) Manny is the weakest of the brothers.
(b) The narrator is scared of Manny.
(c) The narrator thinks Manny is arrogant and will be beaten up by the headbanger.
(d) The narrator thinks Manny is strong and brave.

4. What is the narrator sick of doing after leaving the dumpster in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) Walking.
(b) Listening to Manny and Joel fight.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Creeping.

5. 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?
(a) The narrator trying to battle agains his circumstances, but it is difficult when he is under the influence of medications that make him slur.
(b) The narrator has given up, cannot even speak anymore, and does not know where he is at.
(c) The narrator needing to fight agains the psychiatric ward, get healthy, and finally lead a normal life.
(d) The narrator attempting to sit up in bed, and then mumbling about his struggle.

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

7. 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) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

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

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

11. What line on Page 97 best chronicles how the narrator feels about what the headbanger shows the Brothers in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) "...[W]e boys, we had always seen so much of them..." (97).
(b) "Didn't have nothing to do with us" (97).
(c) "Yeah, you like that, don't you?" (97).
(d) "...[W]e had seen them fail, but without understanding..." (97).

12. Overall, how do the brothers prove they are "tough guys" (68) when they arrive at the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) By holding each other "hostage in the air" (68).
(b) By ganging up on each other.
(c) By throwing rocks at the ducks.
(d) By "taking nothing but dares and putdowns" (68).

13. What memory does the narrator bring to mind at the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?
(a) The narrator is reminded that he will not be part of his brothers' lives anymore.
(b) The narrator is reminded he will no longer have a mother.
(c) The narrator is brought back to a time when he was picked on by his brothers.
(d) The narrator realizes he will be sent to a psychiatric ward.

14. What do Manny and Joel throw at the Grices' camper in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) The rubber ball.
(b) A piece of wood.
(c) Marbles.
(d) Change.

15. What does Ma do while Paps is with the narrator in the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) Ma leaves the house in the truck.
(b) Ma holds Manny and Joels as they cry.
(c) Ma begins to pack up the narrator's clothing.
(d) Ma cries while sitting on the edge of her bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the reader discover about the narrator on page 105 of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, as the brothers stand on the loading dock?

2. Why does Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

3. Where does the headbanger bring the brothers at his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

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

5. How does the narrator specifically behave after registering his family is going to disown him?

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