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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What simile is used to compare Paps' shouting on Page 23?
2. When the narrator wakes up at Paps' work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what does he ask him?
3. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?
4. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
5. Where do the brothers hide after their bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
Short Essay Questions
1. Even though it is not explicitly mentioned in the novel, how does the author convey that Ma has been abused by Paps in Chapter 4?
2. Why do the brothers dig up Old Man's garden?
3. What personality traits and behaviors are both implicitly and explicitly conveyed through the description of the brothers' behaviors in the opening Chapters? How do you come to these conclusions?
4. At the start of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME, how does Paps show an expression of regret when he returns to the family's home?
5. How come Ma does not answer Paps' phone calls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
6. Why does Ma not want the narrator to get older like his other brothers?
7. What kind of support does Lina provide to the narrator's family when she comes to visit?
8. How does Paps coerce Ma into not being so irate about about the new truck?
9. At the end of Chapter 10, NIGHT WATCH, Paps says,"We're never going to escape this...Never" (60). What is he sure the narrator's family will not escape?
10. How does the reader know that Ma was a naive teenager when it came to sex as explained in Chapter 6, US PROPER?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In reference to the narrator asking Paps about the caged light in Chapter 6, NIGHT WATCH, on the ride home from Paps' work, the brothers incessantly ask Paps if he has the capability of unlocking and freeing the light. How does this interrogation from all three brothers show their concern about Paps' power? What is a possible relation to this conversation and the brothers' own futures and potential?
Essay Topic 2
Ma takes the brothers to a church service on the narrator's birthday and shows them a painting of monks. The narrator sees them as "men of hoods with clasped hands and eyes lifted upward" (13). The narrator is especially mesmerized by these men. Later on in the novel, the narrator confesses to Ma that he wants to be a monk. Why might the reader want to become a religious man? How would becoming a monk change the trajectory of his life and assist him in escaping his own demons?
Essay Topic 3
Manny has a symbolic dream at the end of Chapter 15, TRASH KITES. Examine pages 84-85, identify the symbol of "kites" and analyze how the dream exposes more about the nature of the brothers' situation.
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