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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. How much older is the Grices' son, the headbanger, than Manny?
(a) Five years older than Manny.
(b) Two years older than Manny.
(c) The same age as Manny.
(d) One year older than Manny.

2. 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 "looked...with such ferocity" (116).
(b) They "imagined perversions" (116).
(c) They are "calm and assured" (116).
(d) They spoke to him "in bold and explicit language" (116).

3. 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) "The heck we doing here?" (69).
(c) "I thought you were kidnapped!" (70).
(d) "Get yourselves in that truck..." (67).

4. What is the Grices' son, the headbanger, carrying when he comes outside in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) An open cell phone.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) A bat.
(d) A pistol.

5. During the narrator's fight with Joel and Manny toward the end of the novel, what does Manny want the narrator to do?
(a) Admit that the narrator is fucked up.
(b) Fight him.
(c) Go back to the loading dock.
(d) Walk home alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the reader initially tipped off that the headbanger is showing the brothers a pornographic movie?

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator confess he is scared of after Manny talks about the supernatural?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, how does the reader know that the narrator feels differently from his brother Joel about watching Manny be beaten by Paps? What does this say about the narrator as a character?

2. What does it say about the narrator when he ponders, "Who knows this mutt life, this race mixing? Who knows Paps?" (104) in Chapter 19, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?

3. 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"?

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

5. What "lie" does the narrator assume his brothers think about their futures while standing on the loading dock?

6. How does Manny explain his idea of "God" to his brothers after playing the chalk circle game?

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

8. What is the difference between Paps' reasoning and the brothers' assumptions about Paps digging a hole in the backyard? How does the reader know this?

9. What do you discover about the brothers' place in the neighborhood through the presentation on Page 90?

10. 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?

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