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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 Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Because Manny is the youngest.
(b) Because Manny is always causing trouble.
(c) Because Manny is the oldest.
(d) Because Manny has run away before.

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

3. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?
(a) Because Paps buys the truck without telling her, and it has no seats for the brothers.
(b) Because the family has not paid for all of it.
(c) Because Paps tells Ma that it is his truck, and Ma cannot drive it.
(d) Because it is old and rickety and will most likely break down.

4. What do the brothers do with the blue rubber pall to play the sidewalk chalk circle game?
(a) Throw the ball high up in the air and try to catch it.
(b) Smack the ball with their palms.
(c) Pass the ball from one brothers to the next.
(d) Kick the ball to one another.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are there no children at the park according to the narrator when they arrive in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

2. What does the headbanger look like?

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

4. Hypothetically, what animal would the brothers feed the woman's brains to in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

5. What does the narrator think while Paps holds him over the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

5. Why might the author share that the narrator remembers an erotic situation in a public pool locker room before viewing the tape the headbanger shares?

6. What quote on Page 113 claims that the narrator believes his brothers have figured out that the narrator is "different"? Provide a quote.

7. Why does the narrator believe that his family is so furious about what he has written in his journal?

8. At the start of Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS, while playing a game, what do the brothers' imitation of Paps divulge about their sensibilities?

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

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

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