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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ma mad when she returns home after Paps has dug the "trench" (77)?
(a) Because Paps picks her up late from work.
(b) Because there is a big hole in the yard.
(c) Because Paps does not pick her up from work.
(d) Because the boys are dirty.

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

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) A sacrificial sign.
(c) The sun.
(d) A peace sign.

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

5. When the narrator says that he expects Manny to talk back to the headbanger, what can the reader infer about the narrator's opinion of Manny?
(a) Manny is the weakest of the brothers.
(b) The narrator thinks Manny is strong and brave.
(c) The narrator thinks Manny is arrogant and will be beaten up by the headbanger.
(d) The narrator is scared of Manny.

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

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

8. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the white trash boys have that the narrator's brothers do not?
(a) "[P]et snakes in glass aquariums" (104).
(b) "[L]egacies, decades upon decades of poverty..."(104).
(c) "[M]uscles, bulged like knots on a rope" (103).
(d) "[P]unched-out teeth, bad bread, easy winks" (104).

9. 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 bright stars in the sky.
(c) The future.
(d) A poverty-stricken destiny.

10. How does the narrator's family react when he first arrives at home from the bus station in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) They "imagined perversions" (116).
(b) They are "calm and assured" (116).
(c) They spoke to him "in bold and explicit language" (116).
(d) They "looked...with such ferocity" (116).

11. 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.

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

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

14. What is the tone of the narrator's portrayal on page 103 of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE,?
(a) Jubilant and hopeful.
(b) Confused and alone.
(c) Sullen and hopeless.
(d) Negative and judgmental.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny walk toward after seeing the headbanger in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

2. At the start of Chapter 14, TRENCH, what does Manny smear under the brothers' eyes, because they are wearing camouflage clothing?

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

4. 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?

5. What happens when Ma crawls down into the hole and lies down in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

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