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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 is the final act of kindness Paps shows toward the narrator?
(a) Paps sings a song to the narrator, so the narrator is able to fall asleep.
(b) Paps takes the narrator into the narrator's bedroom and helps him gather his clothes.
(c) Paps holds the narrator and rocks him back and forth.
(d) Paps gently and meticulously bathes the narrator.

2. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the white trash boys have that the narrator's brothers do not?
(a) "[L]egacies, decades upon decades of poverty..."(104).
(b) "[M]uscles, bulged like knots on a rope" (103).
(c) "[P]et snakes in glass aquariums" (104).
(d) "[P]unched-out teeth, bad bread, easy winks" (104).

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) Dorito, the Grices' dog.
(d) Mrs. Grices.

4. How is the reader initially tipped off that the headbanger is showing the brothers a pornographic movie?
(a) Because the headbanger's dad yells at them for watching adult movies.
(b) Because the narrator remembers a memory of Paps explaining pornography to him.
(c) Because Manny tells the narrator that they are going to watch pornography.
(d) Because the narrator sees the title of the movie posted on the side of it.

5. What does the headbanger liken the brothers' sidewalk chalk circle to in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) A sacrificial sign.
(b) The sun.
(c) A peace sign.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What about previous experiences in the novel may have led the author to title the last Chapter, ZOOKEEPING?

3. How does Manny describe white magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

4. What is the subject of the narrator's journal?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the headbanger's interpretation of the chalk circle being separated in a way that looks similar to a peace sign contribute to the story?

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

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

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. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE (subsection: MIDNIGHT), why do Manny and Joel say that the narrator is "...fucked up..." (110)?

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

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

9. How does the narrator react to seeing his journal in Ma's lap at the end of the novel?

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

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