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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the headbanger liken the brothers' sidewalk chalk circle to in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) The moon.
(b) The sun.
(c) A sacrificial sign.
(d) A peace sign.

4. 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) Negative and judgmental.
(c) Sullen and hopeless.
(d) Jubilant and hopeful.

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

6. What does Paps do at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) Grabs Ma and throws her against the wall.
(b) Brings Ma into the bedroom and makes her late for work.
(c) Asks Ma to make him dinner before she leaves for work.
(d) Yells at the brothers to clean their rooms before Paps leaves for work.

7. What particular name does Paps use with the narrator before the narrator leaves for the psychiatric ward?
(a) Mijo.
(b) The Lost One.
(c) My Pretty One.
(d) My Beautiful Baby Boy.

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

9. Why does Paps take the narrator to Niagara Falls and not Joel and Manny?
(a) Because Joel and Manny get sick with chicken pox.
(b) Because Joel and Manny are flunking out of school and cannot miss more days.
(c) Because Joel and Manny have already seen Niagara Falls.
(d) Because Joel and Manny are grounded for getting into a fight.

10. 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) Black shoe polish.
(d) Ma's black eyeliner.

11. What incident makes the narrator assume that every member of his family has read his journal?
(a) When his brother Manny recounts words the narrator wrote.
(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) Because it seems as if each person is equally angry.

12. After flying kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, Manny crawls into the narrator's bed and says that he had a dream about what?
(a) Kites being hit by lightening and burning up.
(b) The boys running away to the woods.
(c) All types of kites mixed up together.
(d) That the kites wrapped around Paps and took Paps away.

13. 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 is no longer part of normal human society.
(b) He has lost any chance of being part of a regular family.
(c) He has lost the relationship he had with Ma, Paps, and two brothers.
(d) He lost any hope for meeting other boys like him.

14. 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 the brothers are alone outside the drugstore.
(c) Because she notices they are having a physical fight.
(d) Because they are sitting on the edge of a bridge on the highway alone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to page 122, what part of the body is washed to "pay him [the narrator] the ultimate respect" (122)?

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

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

5. Why does the narrator get on the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?

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