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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. Why does the narrator get on the bus in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
2. What is the reader led to believe by what is in the back of the truck in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
3. What name does Manny call the woman trying to help them?
4. 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?
5. What does Ma do while Paps is with the narrator in the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does the narrator feel when Paps holds him over Niagara Falls? What might this narrator's intuition say about the narrator?
3. 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?
4. What is the narrator's mood after being "made" by the bus driver?
5. What may readers surmise by the narrator's description of feeling delighted by the sound of the damage done to the Grices' camper?
6. How does the narrator react to seeing his journal in Ma's lap at the end of the novel?
7. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE (subsection: MIDNIGHT), why do Manny and Joel say that the narrator is "...fucked up..." (110)?
8. What doubts does the narrator have about why he wrote his personal longings in his journal?
9. 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?
10. How does Ma react when she returns home to find the hole in the backyard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
At the start of the novel, Ma asks the brothers to squirt tomato juice on her. Before being splattered, she compares the brothers appearance, covered in red tomato sliminess, with what the brothers looked like when they were born. Ma requests that the brothers, "Do it to me [Ma]?...Make me born" (6). What does this quote symbolize about Ma and her possible wants, needs, fears, state of mind, or stability? Provide specific examples to support your answer, as well as appropriate quotes.
Essay Topic 3
While at the Lake, Ma asks the narrator how come he is unable to swim, which surprises him, because Ma should be well aware about an earlier incident when the narrator nearly drowned. The narrator considers, "She asked the question as if she was meeting me for the first time...as if it had only just now occurred to Ma how odd it was that I was here, clinging to her and Paps..." (20). What does the narrator's confusion reveal about his relationship with Ma?
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