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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 pistol.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A bat.

2. 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.

3. 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 get away from the snow.
(c) To use the bathroom.
(d) To hide from his brothers.

4. How long has the narrator been going to the bus station in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Every night for the past week.
(c) The narrator has never been to the bus station before.
(d) Months.

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

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

7. 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 sexually touches the narrator.
(c) The bus driver and the narrator talk about pornography.
(d) The bus driver kisses the narrator.

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

9. What happens when Ma crawls down into the hole and lies down in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) She falls asleep for hours.
(b) The brothers come and crawl in with her.
(c) It starts to rain.
(d) Paps comes home and yells at her.

10. 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 the brothers are running away.
(c) That the family is taking a vacation.
(d) That Paps may want to hurt Ma.

11. What does the narrator conclude at the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?
(a) He will runaway.
(b) He will kill Manny and Joel, because of his jealousy.
(c) This is the last night when the brothers will all be happily.
(d) THe wants to ask the headbanger for more pornography.

12. 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 gently and meticulously bathes the narrator.
(c) Paps takes the narrator into the narrator's bedroom and helps him gather his clothes.
(d) Paps holds the narrator and rocks him back and forth.

13. What incident makes the narrator assume that every member of his family has read his journal?
(a) Because it seems as if each person is equally angry.
(b) When each person tells him exactly what he/she has read.
(c) When his Paps lunges toward him, and his brothers hold Paps back.
(d) When his brother Manny recounts words the narrator wrote.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE, subsection: "MIDNIGHT," what does the narrator share with the reader about Paps and Ma?

3. Who is the first brother to go into the hole in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

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

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

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