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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, DUCKS - Chapter 15, TRASH KITES.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Lina, Ma's co-worker, come to the narrator's house?
(a) To tell Ma she has been fired.
(b) To tell Paps to stop beating Ma.
(c) To babysit the boys.
(d) Ma has not been showing up to work.

3. Why does Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) Because Manny is the youngest.
(b) Because Manny is always causing trouble.
(c) Because Manny is the oldest.
(d) Because Manny has run away before.

4. When the boys' father, Paps, comes home, how does he punish his sons?
(a) Paps yells at his sons for hours.
(b) Paps does not speak to his sons.
(c) Paps spanks his sons.
(d) Paps makes the sons mow the lawn.

5. After flying kites in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES, Manny crawls into the narrator's bed and says that he had a dream about what?
(a) The boys running away to the woods.
(b) That the kites wrapped around Paps and took Paps away.
(c) Kites being hit by lightening and burning up.
(d) All types of kites mixed up together.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the highway, why does a woman offer to bring the brothers anywhere they need to go?

2. What does Lina call Ma after arriving at the narrator's house?

3. What does Ma wear for the family's first drive in the truck?

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

5. Hypothetically, what animal would the brothers feed the woman's brains to in Chapter 13, DUCKS?

(see the answer key)

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