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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9, TALK TO ME - Chapter 12, BIG-DICK TRUCK.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Paps to get a steady job.
(c) More freedom.
(d) Their parents' love and attention.

2. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?
(a) Old Man tells the brothers that they will see the locusts, "by the by" (34) just like the brothers.
(b) Old Man calls the brothers useful and hardworking.
(c) Old Man calls the brothers, "castaways, stowaways, hideaways, fugitives, punks, city slickers, and bastards" (35).
(d) Old Man draws the brothers pictures of how the brothers compare to locusts.

3. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?
(a) An adult magazine.
(b) Change for her baby.
(c) Milk for her baby.
(d) Money for rent.

4. What are Ma and Paps doing in the bathroom while the brothers bathe in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME??
(a) Arguing about money.
(b) Ma and Paps are both washing the boys.
(c) Ma is doing her make-up, and Paps is fixing the plumbing.
(d) Flirting and playing with each other.

5. Why is Ma worried about the brothers' bath in Chapter 10, YOU BETTER COME?
(a) Ma is worried that the brothers will catch "pneumonia" (46) from the cold water.
(b) Ma is scared that the brothers "couldn't comprehend what was..." (46) happening.
(c) Ma is stressed that the brothers are "sneaky," (47) and will play a trick on her.
(d) Ma is concerned about the brothers, because the brothers were "clean and fed and not afraid of growing up" (47).

Short Answer Questions

1. When Paps and the brothers return home from Paps' job in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what are they shouting?

2. What does Old Man call the brothers as they eat the vegetables from his garden?

3. When the family car breaks down in the rain, what does Paps use to protect the brothers?

4. What color is the family's new truck?

5. Why does Manny crawl into bed with his brother at the beginning of the story?

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