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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quote and Chapters 1, WE WANTED MORE - Chapter 4, SEVEN.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(b) Ma states that with her older sons she had to "meet taught with tough" (17).
(c) Ma states that with her older sons she no longer had to "shy away" (17).
(d) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).

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

3. After reading Chapter 1, WE WANTED MORE, what point of view is the novel being told from?
(a) Third person point of view.
(b) Second person point of view.
(c) Third person omniscient point of view.
(d) First person point of view.

4. At the start of the narrative, what age does the narrator turn?
(a) The narrator does not have a birthday.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

5. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?
(a) Ma got into a fight at work with Lina, her co-worker.
(b) Ma was in a bad car accident and hit her face on the steering wheel.
(c) Ma was punched in the face by the dentist to loosen her teeth before pulling them.
(d) Ma fell down the stairs when she was drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?

2. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?

3. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?

4. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?

5. In the opening of Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME, why are the brothers wearing raincoats?

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