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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 the narrator get on the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) To get away from the snow.
(b) To eat some food and warm up.
(c) To use the bathroom.
(d) To hide from his brothers.

2. 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) "I am done pretending" (114).
(b) "And I was made" (115).
(c) "There was no one to explain any of this to me" (113).
(d) "My brothers will lose themselves tonight" (114).

3. 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) Walk home alone.
(c) Fight him.
(d) Go back to the loading dock.

4. What contemplation does the narrator have about his journal after being brought to the psychiatric ward?
(a) If he should have burnt the journal in the woods.
(b) If he is not really gay, but that he was merely making up stories.
(c) If one of his brothers will be able to relate to what he wrote.
(d) If he wrote the journal purposely knowing and wanting others to read it.

5. What does Manny walk toward after seeing the headbanger in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) The headbanger.
(b) The woods.
(c) A log.
(d) Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the final chapter lead the reader to believe about the narrator's mental space?

2. Where does Ma say she has always wanted to visit in Chapter 13, THE DUCKS?

3. Instead of an open field, where does Manny think the brothers should have slept to elude Paps in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

4. What does Ma say to the brothers at the park while they are hiding in a canoe?

5. What are the narrator's brothers doing while Paps spends time with the narrator in the bathtub at the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ma feel after visiting the park? What statements or behavior show her feelings?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What does Manny's dream about kites represent for the brothers and their futures? Provide a quote that shows your reasoning.

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

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

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

10. Why might the brothers claim to be "Ma's Militia" (80) in Chapter 14, TRENCH?

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