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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 Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
2. What does Paps confess to the narrator on the way home from the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
3. 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?
4. What is the Grices' son, the headbanger, carrying when he comes outside in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
5. Why is Paps going to Niagara Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Ma react when she returns home to find the hole in the backyard?
3. How do Paps and Ma choose to handle the discovery of the narrator's journal and having to send him to a psychiatric institution?
4. What may readers surmise by the narrator's description of feeling delighted by the sound of the damage done to the Grices' camper?
5. Why might the brothers claim to be "Ma's Militia" (80) in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
6. What quote on Page 113 claims that the narrator believes his brothers have figured out that the narrator is "different"? Provide a quote.
7. How does the narrator react to seeing his journal in Ma's lap at the end of the novel?
8. In the final Chapter, ZOOKEEPER, what do you realize about the narrator's mindset?
9. Why does the narrator believe that his family is so furious about what he has written in his journal?
10. How do you know that the narrator and the bus driver have a sexual encounter? (Provide a quote.)
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
The narrator displays conflict about watching the pornographic video, his background with the notion of sexuality, and how the two are connected and also contrasted. Analyze the author's choice to intertwine these emotions that the narrator has.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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