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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS - Chapter 17, NIAGRA.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ma describe carrying Manny in her "stomach" (26)?
(a) Ma says that Manny was "mixed up" (26).
(b) Ma says that Manny's, "eyes were wet, black-holey - no fear there, no disgust, no pity" (27).
(c) Ma says that it "rained down silver jingles" (27).
(d) Ma says that Manny was "growing, heart ticking like a time bomb" (26).

2. Whys is Ma upset that Paps gets a new truck for the family?
(a) Paps wasted all of their savings on a fancy truck.
(b) The truck does not have enough seats or seatbelts for the boys.
(c) Paps stole the truck.
(d) She wanted a car - not a truck.

3. What does Ma wear for the family's first drive in the truck?
(a) Ma refuses to go on the first drive.
(b) Her work boots and a house dress.
(c) A red dress and gold hoop earrings.
(d) A short black skirt with high heels.

4. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?
(a) Because they are damaging his garden.
(b) Because locusts are ugly like the boys.
(c) Because they are both in his garden.
(d) Because they will quickly fly away back to their house.

5. Who do the brothers imitate while playing their chalk circle game in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) An unruly neighbor.
(b) Lina.
(c) Paps.
(d) Ma.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last paragraph of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME, what does the narrator imply the brothers "need" (51)?

2. What does Lina bring with her to the narrator's house?

3. What does the narrator think while Paps holds him over the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

4. At the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME, what does Ma cut her fingertip on?

5. Why do the brothers have to go with Paps to work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?

(see the answer key)

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