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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do in the theater at the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) Tells Paps to stop yelling at the screen.
(b) Make friends with another boy.
(c) Dances.
(d) Lies down and takes a nap.

2. When the narrator says that he expects Manny to talk back to the headbanger, what can the reader infer about the narrator's opinion of Manny?
(a) The narrator is scared of Manny.
(b) The narrator thinks Manny is arrogant and will be beaten up by the headbanger.
(c) Manny is the weakest of the brothers.
(d) The narrator thinks Manny is strong and brave.

3. Overall, how do the brothers prove they are "tough guys" (68) when they arrive at the park in Chapter 13, DUCKS?
(a) By holding each other "hostage in the air" (68).
(b) By "taking nothing but dares and putdowns" (68).
(c) By throwing rocks at the ducks.
(d) By ganging up on each other.

4. What subject is Manny always trying to teach the narrator and Joel about as brought up in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP US?
(a) How to fish.
(b) Their parents' relationship.
(c) God.
(d) Sex.

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) Kites being hit by lightening and burning up.
(b) The boys running away to the woods.
(c) All types of kites mixed up together.
(d) That the kites wrapped around Paps and took Paps away.

6. What does the headbanger liken the brothers' sidewalk chalk circle to in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) The moon.
(b) A sacrificial sign.
(c) A peace sign.
(d) The sun.

7. What do the narrator and Paps eat after leaving the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Hamburgers.
(d) Nothing.

8. What happens when Ma crawls down into the hole and lies down in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) The brothers come and crawl in with her.
(b) Paps comes home and yells at her.
(c) She falls asleep for hours.
(d) It starts to rain.

9. Who is the narrator illustrating at the start of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, on Page 103?
(a) A fight between Joel and Manny.
(b) Manny and Joel.
(c) Other boys that live in the neighborhood.
(d) The men who work on the loading dock.

10. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE, what do the white trash boys have that the narrator's brothers do not?
(a) "[M]uscles, bulged like knots on a rope" (103).
(b) "[P]et snakes in glass aquariums" (104).
(c) "[L]egacies, decades upon decades of poverty..."(104).
(d) "[P]unched-out teeth, bad bread, easy winks" (104).

11. Where does the narrator think Paps is digging to in Chapter 14, TRENCH?
(a) China.
(b) The center of the world.
(c) To release stress.
(d) Deep enough to bury a body.

12. What does Ma say to the brothers at the park while they are hiding in a canoe?
(a) "I thought you were kidnapped!" (70).
(b) "Get yourselves in that truck..." (67).
(c) "Promise you won't do it this time?" (68).
(d) "The heck we doing here?" (69).

13. What contemplation does the narrator have about his journal after being brought to the psychiatric ward?
(a) If one of his brothers will be able to relate to what he wrote.
(b) If he should have burnt the journal in the woods.
(c) If he is not really gay, but that he was merely making up stories.
(d) If he wrote the journal purposely knowing and wanting others to read it.

14. Initially, what does the bus driver ask the narrator in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) If the narrator wants to go for a ride through town.
(b) If the narrator is lost.
(c) If the narrator is going to New York.
(d) If the narrator wants some candy.

15. At the start of Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS, how many sections do the brothers separate their sidewalk chalk circle into?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of the narrator's portrayal on page 103 of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE,?

2. Why is Ma mad when she returns home after Paps has dug the "trench" (77)?

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

4. What does the narrator most likely mean when he says, "I've lost my pack" (125) at the end of the novel in the psychiatric ward?

5. How does Manny describe white magic in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

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