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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the narrator's brothers doing while Paps spends time with the narrator in the bathtub at the end of the novel?
(a) They are crying outside on the porch.
(b) Sweeping the snow off the truck.
(c) They have gone to the neighbors.
(d) Huddled in the living room watching TV.

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

7. What does Ma mean by, "But I need you to tell me what to do?" to the brothers at the park (72)?
(a) Ma means that the brothers have to tell her to leave Paps.
(b) Ma means that the brothers have to tell Ma how to save enough money for a new car.
(c) Ma means that the brothers have to tell Paps and Ma where to drive next.
(d) Ma means that the brothers have to tell Ma how to sell the truck.

8. What does Ma say to the brothers at the park while they are hiding in a canoe?
(a) "Promise you won't do it this time?" (68).
(b) "Get yourselves in that truck..." (67).
(c) "I thought you were kidnapped!" (70).
(d) "The heck we doing here?" (69).

9. What does Joel say is the reason for Paps' digging a hole in the backyard?
(a) A grave for Ma.
(b) A grave for Manny.
(c) A trench.
(d) A grave for himself.

10. 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 an abandoned barn.
(c) In the woods.
(d) In a field with more trees.

11. What does the headbanger look like?
(a) White-blonde hair down his back, and it is cut short at the sides and front.
(b) Short-blond hair and acne pocks on his face.
(c) Dirty clothes and oily skin.
(d) He wears shorts and a tank-top, even when it is cold outside.

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

13. After Manny's dream, what implied comparison is made about the dream to the brothers' current situation in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Manny compares the brothers to prisoners in Paps' house.
(b) Manny compares the brothers to "a fistful of seed that God tossed into the mud" (84).
(c) Manny compares the brothers to the other neighborhood kids who have no futures.
(d) Manny compares the brothers to "a whole sky full of kites" (84).

14. Where does the narrator think Paps is digging to in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) Deep enough to bury a body.
(b) To release stress.
(c) The center of the world.
(d) China.

15. 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) "Didn't have nothing to do with us" (97).
(b) "...[W]e had seen them fail, but without understanding..." (97).
(c) "Yeah, you like that, don't you?" (97).
(d) "...[W]e boys, we had always seen so much of them..." (97).

Short Answer Questions

1. When Manny says, "We should have killed that fucking woman," (73) what woman is he alluding to?

2. Why are there no children at the park according to the narrator when they arrive in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

3. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?

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

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

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