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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. What does Manny say about Paps disappearance in Chapter 8, OTHER LOCUSTS?
(a) Manny tells the boys that Paps "yelled that one word over and over, stop, stop, stop" (37).
(b) Manny tells the narrator that Paps "was still broken, still dead-eyed, but not dead" (36).
(c) Manny tells the boys that Paps "don't know shit" (37).
(d) Manny says that "he'd picked up with another woman" (36).

2. What does Ma ask her sons to squirt on her face when they run out of the original ingredient(s)?
(a) Chocolate milk.
(b) Water and salt.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Ketchup.

3. Why is Chapter 6 called US PROPER?
(a) Because the pregnant woman asks the brothers if they know how to be proper.
(b) Because Ma asks the brothers to be proper and stop playing games.
(c) Because the drugstore clerk asks the brothers to behave properly.
(d) Because Paps spanks the brothers and tells them to behave properly.

4. What do Manny and Joel throw at the Grices' camper in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) Marbles.
(b) The rubber ball.
(c) A piece of wood.
(d) Change.

5. What happens when Ma crawls down into the hole and lies down in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) The brothers come and crawl in with her.
(b) She falls asleep for hours.
(c) Paps comes home and yells at her.
(d) It starts to rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ma say she has always wanted to visit in Chapter 13, THE DUCKS?

2. What is unusual about the way Paps and Ma are dressed during the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??

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

4. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?

5. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?

(see the answer key)

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