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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. Instead of an open field, where does Manny think the brothers should have slept to elude Paps in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
2. What does Paps do at the start of Chapter 13, DUCKS?
3. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the white trash boys have that the narrator's brothers do not?
4. How does the narrator specifically behave after registering his family is going to disown him?
5. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE, subsection: "MIDNIGHT," what does the narrator share with the reader about Paps and Ma?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the narrator's inner-reflections about his brothers while standing on the loading dock in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE (subsection: MIDNIGHT) contrast what he has previously gives voice to?
2. In the final Chapter, ZOOKEEPER, what do you realize about the narrator's mindset?
3. What is the narrator's mood after being "made" by the bus driver?
4. How does the narrator deviate from the other brothers when it comes to lying in the hole Paps has dug?
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. How does Ma react when she returns home to find the hole in the backyard?
7. How do you know that the narrator and the bus driver have a sexual encounter? (Provide a quote.)
8. 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?
9. What does the author's choice to intertwine the narrator's episode in the locker room while watching the pornographic video contribute to uncover the narrator's notion of sexuality?
10. What does the narrator claim is the closest to being "made" he has ever been while hiding in the bus station bathroom? What does this exploit reveal about the narrator's secret?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 3, HERITAGE, Paps explains that the brothers are not Puerto Rican, white, or rich, but asks them to individually dance as if they belong to one of these cultural/racial/socioeconomic statuses. Why does Paps want the brothers to imitate all three types of heritage groups? What does Paps believe each group embodies by the way the brothers dance?
Essay Topic 2
Paps digs a "hole" in the backyard while the brothers watch from an upstairs window. The brothers debate whether it is a hole, trench, or grave. Why do the brothers see the hole as being more somber than what Paps' true intentions may be? What does Paps say that explains his own reasoning for the hole?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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