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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one nickname that the narrator and his two brothers call themselves?
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Gentleman.
(c) The Monkeys.
(d) The Robbers.

2. What does the last line in the Quote before the Title Page say about how boys should be treated?
(a) Boys are smart and wild.
(b) Boys need to be punished when they disobey.
(c) Boys should be bonded with many chains.
(d) Boys are wild beasts and hard to manage.

3. When Paps and the brothers return home from Paps' job in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what are they shouting?
(a) "He crying?" (58).
(b) "No More Crying! No More Crying!" (59).
(c) "Thump, thump, thump" (58).
(d) "Stop, stop" (59).

4. When the family car breaks down in the rain, what does Paps use to protect the brothers?
(a) Plastic bags.
(b) An old blanket.
(c) His jacket.
(d) Old magazines.

5. On the last page of Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what is Paps sad/worried about?
(a) That the family, and more importantly, the brothers will never escape this difficult life.
(b) Whether Ma will leave him.
(c) That the family will not be able to pay rent.
(d) Whether the brothers will have to go live with their grandparents.

6. On the way home from the lake, the narrator reveals his brothers' ages. How old are they?
(a) Manny is 10 years old, and Joel is 8 years old.
(b) Manny is 9 years old, and Joel is 8 years old.
(c) Manny is 9 years old, and Joel is 7 years old.
(d) Manny is 14 years old, and Joel is 12 years old.

7. What does Manny, the narrator's eldest brother, have to get in the middle of the night from the neighbor's for a birthday?
(a) Frosting and candles.
(b) A cup of sugar.
(c) A stick of butter.
(d) A glass dish.

8. What explanation does Paps say to his sons about Ma's swollen purple cheeks?
(a) Ma got into a fight at work with Lina, her co-worker.
(b) Ma fell down the stairs when she was drunk.
(c) Ma was punched in the face by the dentist to loosen her teeth before pulling them.
(d) Ma was in a bad car accident and hit her face on the steering wheel.

9. According Chapter 5, THE LAKE, who is the only one in the family allowed to say he/she is scared?
(a) Ma.
(b) Manny.
(c) Joel.
(d) The narrator.

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

11. What do the brothers ask strangers to buy them outside the drugstore in Chapter 5, US PROPER?
(a) Gum and cigarettes.
(b) Cigarettes or whiskey.
(c) Booze and candy.
(d) Cigarettes or beer.

12. 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.

13. Why is it unusual that Paps knows how to swim?
(a) Because he has never seen water before.
(b) Because he grew up away from the water.
(c) Because he is afraid of drowning.
(d) Because he is from Canada.

14. What object does the narrator use to tell the reader the size of the fish in the lake as mentioned on Page 19?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Crescents.
(d) Clumps.

15. When the narrator wakes up at Paps' work in Chapter 11, NIGHT WATCH, what does he ask him?
(a) "Why is that light in a cage?" (53) referring to a light in the sky.
(b) "What'd the man say to you?" (57) referring to Paps' co-worker.
(c) "What's all this?" (55) referring to a card he finds on the ground.
(d) "Why is that light in a cage?" (53) referring to a light in a metal mesh box across the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?

2. What do the brothers give the pregnant woman outside the drugstore?

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

4. At the start of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME, what does Ma cut her fingertip on?

5. What do Paps and Ma do in the bathroom as described on Page 48?

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