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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?
(a) Because it is old and rickety and will most likely break down.
(b) Because Paps tells Ma that it is his truck, and Ma cannot drive it.
(c) Because the family has not paid for all of it.
(d) Because Paps buys the truck without telling her, and it has no seats for the brothers.

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

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

4. At the start of Chapter 14, TRENCH, what does Manny smear under the brothers' eyes, because they are wearing camouflage clothing?
(a) Ma's red lipstick.
(b) Mud.
(c) Ma's black eyeliner.
(d) Black shoe polish.

5. What does Paps confess to the narrator on the way home from the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) The narrator is his favorite son.
(b) He is cheating on Ma and leaving the family.
(c) He was watching the narrator at the museum and thought the narrator was pretty.
(d) He is angry with the narrator for talking to strangers.

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

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

8. 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 are getting a divorce.
(b) Paps and Ma have had conversations with him about his potential.
(c) Paps and Ma do not treat the narrator as well as his brothers, and they feel regret about it.
(d) Paps and Ma have told the narrator his brothers are stupid.

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

10. 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 saying that he wants to show them something.
(b) By saying that he has alcohol.
(c) By offering them money.
(d) By promising to share a joint with them.

11. How does Manny specifically explain black magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) As voodoo, snake-charming, and poison.
(b) It is hell and the devil.
(c) It is poison and darkness.
(d) As mushrooms that puff out a yellow smoke of spores when squeezed.

12. 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 has given up, cannot even speak anymore, and does not know where he is at.
(b) The narrator trying to battle agains his circumstances, but it is difficult when he is under the influence of medications that make him slur.
(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.

13. 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) Admit that the narrator is fucked up.
(c) Fight him.
(d) Walk home alone.

14. 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) "[P]et snakes in glass aquariums" (104).
(c) "[L]egacies, decades upon decades of poverty..."(104).
(d) "[M]uscles, bulged like knots on a rope" (103).

15. 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?
(a) The narrator wants to kill himself.
(b) The narrator has been planning to runaway.
(c) The narrator feels separate from his brothers.
(d) The narrator is jealous of his brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What do the brothers use to make kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

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

4. What about previous experiences in the novel may have led the author to title the last Chapter, ZOOKEEPING?

5. 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?

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