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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS - Chapter 17, NIAGRA.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Manny and Joel throw at the Grices' camper in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) The rubber ball.
(b) Change.
(c) Marbles.
(d) A piece of wood.

2. What does the narrator think while Paps holds him over the Falls in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) "You're going to learn your lesson" (96).
(b) "Wasn't no one there to stop this" (96).
(c) "Why won't you look at me?" (97).
(d) "I wanted him [Paps] to let me go and die" (99).

3. Why do the brothers have to go with Paps to work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH?
(a) Because Paps needs extra help.
(b) Because Paps is afraid the boys will get in trouble.
(c) Because Ma is working too, and no one is at home to watch them.
(d) Because Ma is asleep at home, and they will wake her.

4. What does Joel say is the reason for Paps' digging a hole in the backyard?
(a) A grave for Ma.
(b) A grave for Manny.
(c) A trench.
(d) A grave for himself.

5. Where has Ma seen the "most water she ever saw in one place" (19)?
(a) In California in giant public swimming pools, where she swam in the summer.
(b) In upstate New York after the snow melted.
(c) In Brooklyn after it rained and puddles gathered on the sides of the street.
(d) In Brooklyn when men opened a johnny pump and water rushed forth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Paps finally get?

2. How does the reader know how Old Man feels about the brothers?

3. Who do the brothers imitate while playing their chalk circle game in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

4. Why does Paps take the narrator to Niagara Falls and not Joel and Manny?

5. What do the narrator and Paps eat after leaving the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

(see the answer key)

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