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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. What meal does Old Man prepare for the brothers?
(a) Vegetables and chicken.
(b) Soup with vegetables from the garden.
(c) Salad with vegetables from the garden.
(d) Stew with mutton meat.

2. What role does the narrator play in the "magic of God" (25)?
(a) God.
(b) The Holy Spirit.
(c) The Father.
(d) The Son.

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

4. How does Ma describe the difference between loving younger sons to older ones?
(a) Ma states that with her older sons she had to use "cooing words" (17).
(b) Ma states that with her older son she had to punish them more.
(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 "meet taught with tough" (17).

5. Who is incessantly calling the narrator's house at the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
(a) Lina.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Ma.
(d) Paps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the brothers run their fingers around the empty bowls in Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?

2. Where does Ma work?

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

4. What does the word "rappel" most likely mean on Page 25?

5. When the narrator wakes up at Paps' work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what does he ask him?

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