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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. 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 it is old and rickety and will most likely break down.
(c) Because Paps buys the truck without telling her, and it has no seats for the brothers.
(d) Because the family has not paid for all of it.

2. When Manny says, "We should have killed that fucking woman," (73) what woman is he alluding to?
(a) Ma.
(b) The highway or Ma - it is unclear.
(c) A homeless woman they met at the park.
(d) The woman on the highway.

3. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE, subsection: "MIDNIGHT," what do Manny and Joel say in connection to a negative view of the narrator?
(a) Manny is capable of destroying the narrator.
(b) The headbanger is capable of attacking the narrator.
(c) Paps is capable of destroying the narrator for his weird behavior.
(d) The narrator is capable of destroying himself.

4. Who is the narrator illustrating at the start of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, on Page 103?
(a) Other boys that live in the neighborhood.
(b) A fight between Joel and Manny.
(c) The men who work on the loading dock.
(d) Manny and Joel.

5. What simile is used on Page 75 to describe the brothers leaning out the window watching Paps?
(a) "We would have appeared to him like a three-torsoed beast" (75).
(b) "We pushed open the upstairs window and leaned out..." (75).
(c) "Still in our underwear, our skin one shade of deep summer brown..." (75).
(d) "Someone had died, someone in the army" (75).

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of the narrator's portrayal on page 103 of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE,?

2. What is the subject of the video in the museum, where the narrator is dropped off at in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

3. Why does Paps take the narrator to Niagara Falls and not Joel and Manny?

4. What does Manny scream at while Paps is beating him for going to the field in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Ma react when she returns home to find the hole in the backyard?

3. 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?

4. How do you know that the narrator and the bus driver have a sexual encounter? (Provide a quote.)

5. What does the narrator claim is the closest to being "made" he has ever been while hiding in the bus station bathroom? What does this exploit reveal about the narrator's secret?

6. Why is it unusual for the narrator to be dancing like a "mer-man prince" (100) at the museum theater in Niagara Falls?

7. How does the narrator deviate from the other brothers when it comes to lying in the hole Paps has dug?

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

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

10. How do Paps and Ma choose to handle the discovery of the narrator's journal and having to send him to a psychiatric institution?

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