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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What predominant positive feeling does the narrator think to himself once he gets off the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) "My brothers will lose themselves tonight" (114).
(b) "There was no one to explain any of this to me" (113).
(c) "I am done pretending" (114).
(d) "And I was made" (115).

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

3. Who is sitting in the living room at the Grices' house when the boys arrive in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) Ben.
(b) Mr. Grices.
(c) Mrs. Grices.
(d) Dorito, the Grices' dog.

4. 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 it is old and rickety and will most likely break down.
(d) Because Paps buys the truck without telling her, and it has no seats for the brothers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the narrator conclude at the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?

3. How does Manny specifically explain black magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

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

5. How does the narrator specifically behave after registering his family is going to disown him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What may readers surmise by the narrator's description of feeling delighted by the sound of the damage done to the Grices' camper?

2. At the end of Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS, the narrator says, "Why won't you look at me, my brothers, why won't you take my eyes?" (97). Why does the other want his brothers to "take his eyes"?

3. What do you believe is Ma's original intention when she takes the brothers to the park? How does the reader know that?

4. How do the narrator's inner-reflections about his brothers while standing on the loading dock in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE (subsection: MIDNIGHT) contrast what he has previously gives voice to?

5. After Paps leaves the narrator alone at museum, an older man ambiguously asks the narrator, "I guess you're a bit young for that. What about your folks?" (100). What are some implications that can be made about the old man's statement?

6. How does the narrator feel when Paps holds him over Niagara Falls? What might this narrator's intuition say about the narrator?

7. How does the narrator relate a stray cat's neglect of drinking milk they have given to her to Ma?

8. Why is Manny the first one to come out of the dark to face the headbanger after breaking a window of the headbanger's family camper?

9. What doubts does the narrator have about why he wrote his personal longings in his journal?

10. In the final Chapter, ZOOKEEPER, what do you realize about the narrator's mindset?

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