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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 job does Paps finally get?
2. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?
3. Why is the Chapter 2 called, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
4. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
5. Where is Lina from?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Paps coerce Ma into not being so irate about about the new truck?
3. What may the Quote provided before the Title Page relate to you about a theme or important motif of the novel?
4. Why does Ma not want the narrator to get older like his other brothers?
5. Having the knowledge of Ma's grueling work schedule and unstable behavior, why might the narrator say after Ma awakes confused, "It was a Sunday, but no one told Ma that" (5)?
6. Why may Ma choose to call the narrator's family's new vehicle, "Big-Dick Truck"?
7. Why do the brothers dig up Old Man's garden?
8. What are some examples at the start of Chapter 12, BIG-DICK TRUCK that demonstrate the financial situation of the narrator's family?
9. How do you know that the narrator and his brothers are ravenous for more life according to the first page of the novel?
10. How come Ma does not answer Paps' phone calls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
During Paps' new job as a late night security guard, the brothers accompany him to work throughout the night. The narrator awakens in the middle of the night and has a profound conversation with Paps about why a light is trapped in a cage across the street. How does Paps' reasoning and response present a bigger link to the story and the meaning of being trapped? After reading the entire novel, how might this conversation produce deeper insight into the narrator's feelings and questioning that is not so easily seen from the initial incident?
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