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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. Why does Paps take the narrator to Niagara Falls and not Joel and Manny?
(a) Because Joel and Manny are flunking out of school and cannot miss more days.
(b) Because Joel and Manny are grounded for getting into a fight.
(c) Because Joel and Manny have already seen Niagara Falls.
(d) Because Joel and Manny get sick with chicken pox.

2. What does Paps do when Ma yells at him, "This fucking big-dick truck" (64)?
(a) Paps slaps Ma across the face after she yells.
(b) Paps ignores Ma and drives away after she yells.
(c) Paps storms inside to confront Ma directly at her rage.
(d) Paps piles the boys in the truck and drives off after Ma yells.

3. In the last paragraph of Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME, what does the narrator imply the brothers "need" (51)?
(a) Their parents to stop fighting.
(b) Their parents' love and attention.
(c) Paps to get a steady job.
(d) More freedom.

4. At the start of Chapter 6, US PROPER, what do the three brothers create by stacking up on one another's shoulders?
(a) "[A] woman" (24).
(b) The "Three Musketeers" (24).
(c) "[A] ladder" (24).
(d) "[B]urglars" (25).

5. What does Paps confess to the narrator on the way home from the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) He was watching the narrator at the museum and thought the narrator was pretty.
(b) He is cheating on Ma and leaving the family.
(c) The narrator is his favorite son.
(d) He is angry with the narrator for talking to strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the crawlspace, the narrator asks Joel, "It's just going to be like this forever?" (43). What is the narrator referring to?

2. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?

3. What is the Grices' son, the headbanger, carrying when he comes outside in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

4. What does Ma wear for the family's first drive in the truck?

5. What does the narrator hope Paps and Ma will do after the brothers' hide from them in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?

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