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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is hiding Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE, subsection "DUMPSTER"?
(a) The headbanger.
(b) A big rat.
(c) Old car parts.
(d) A stray cat.

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

4. Out on the loading dock in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the narrator and his brothers look toward?
(a) Death and defeat.
(b) The future.
(c) The bright stars in the sky.
(d) A poverty-stricken destiny.

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

6. What does the narrator most likely mean when he says, "I've lost my pack" (125) at the end of the novel in the psychiatric ward?
(a) He has lost the relationship he had with Ma, Paps, and two brothers.
(b) He has lost any chance of being part of a regular family.
(c) He is no longer part of normal human society.
(d) He lost any hope for meeting other boys like him.

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

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

9. Who is sitting in the living room at the Grices' house when the boys arrive in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) Mr. Grices.
(b) Ben.
(c) Dorito, the Grices' dog.
(d) Mrs. Grices.

10. What is the subject of the narrator's journal?
(a) The horrible parenting of Paps and Ma.
(b) Insulting language about his brothers.
(c) Fantasies about the men he has met at the bus station.
(d) Sexual observations of young women.

11. When Manny says, "We should have killed that fucking woman," (73) what woman is he alluding to?
(a) Ma.
(b) The highway or Ma - it is unclear.
(c) The woman on the highway.
(d) A homeless woman they met at the park.

12. What subject is Manny always trying to teach the narrator and Joel about as brought up in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP US?
(a) Sex.
(b) God.
(c) How to fish.
(d) Their parents' relationship.

13. What does the final chapter lead the reader to believe about the narrator's mental space?
(a) The narrator has gone crazy and is losing his cognizance due to his possible medications.
(b) The narrator is making good friends in the psychiatric ward.
(c) The narrator should not be in the psychiatric ward.
(d) The narrator will soon get out of the psychiatric ward.

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

15. What happens between the bus driver and the narrator in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) The bus driver beats up the narrator.
(b) The bus driver and the narrator talk about pornography.
(c) The bus driver sexually touches the narrator.
(d) The bus driver kisses the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he is embarrassed by his brothers in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

2. 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?

3. What does the narrator conclude at the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?

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 does the narrator notice in the back of the truck on the way to the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

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