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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, DUCKS - Chapter 15, TRASH KITES.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promise does Paps eventually make to Ma about the truck?
(a) He will make seatbelts for the boys.
(b) He will buy Ma her own car.
(c) He will sell the truck for more money.
(d) He will return the truck the next day.

2. At the end of Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, what is Manny's idea to "save" the brothers?
(a) Find a way to reverse gravity.
(b) Build a big kite that will take them away.
(c) Run away.
(d) Get Ma, pile into the truck, and drive away.

3. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.
(b) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.
(c) In upstate New York after the snow melted.
(d) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.

4. What does Paps declare when the boys approach the hole in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) "What do you know about trenches?" (78).
(b) "I'll never get out of here" (76).
(c) "No way that's my grave" (76).
(d) "That ain't no grave. That's a trench" (76).

5. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?
(a) Because they closed down before the family arrives.
(b) Because it is the middle of the night.
(c) because it is Sunday.
(d) Because it is a holiday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reader led to believe by what is in the back of the truck in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

2. What job does Paps finally get?

3. Why do the brothers have to get up quickly and leave Paps' work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?

4. After Manny's dream, what implied comparison is made about the dream to the brothers' current situation in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

5. What tool do the boys use to smash the tomatoes?

(see the answer key)

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