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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. How does Old Man tell the brothers to cure their "skeet bites" (35)?
(a) Cut a cross on the bites with their fingernails.
(b) Leave the bites alone to heal.
(c) Spit on their bites.
(d) Put a special lotion he has on the bites.

2. What does Ma compare to the boys' faces being messy in Chapter 2, NEVER-NEVER TIME?
(a) The birth of baby robins.
(b) Snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground.
(c) The way they looked when they were born.
(d) The family's sullied house.

3. How old is Ma when she gives birth to Manny?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

4. What does Paps do to try and convey to his sons their heritage?
(a) Paps plays British music.
(b) Paps shows his sons pictures of his childhood.
(c) Paps dances in a Puerto Rican style.
(d) Paps takes his sons to meet their grandparents.

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 promise does Paps eventually make to Ma about the truck?

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

3. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?

4. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?

5. Why does Old Man compare the brothers to locusts?

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