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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The last line of the narrator's final thoughts are, "Upright, upright, I say, I slur, I vow" (125). How may this line be interpreted?
(a) The narrator needing to fight agains the psychiatric ward, get healthy, and finally lead a normal life.
(b) The narrator has given up, cannot even speak anymore, and does not know where he is at.
(c) The narrator trying to battle agains his circumstances, but it is difficult when he is under the influence of medications that make him slur.
(d) The narrator attempting to sit up in bed, and then mumbling about his struggle.

2. What is the narrator sick of doing after leaving the dumpster in Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I WAS MADE?
(a) Listening to Manny and Joel fight.
(b) Walking.
(c) Creeping.
(d) Drinking.

3. Instead of an open field, where does Manny think the brothers should have slept to elude Paps in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?
(a) In a field with more trees.
(b) In an abandoned barn.
(c) In the woods.
(d) In their neighbor's camper.

4. How does the headbanger get the brothers to come over to his house in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?
(a) By offering them money.
(b) By promising to share a joint with them.
(c) By saying that he has alcohol.
(d) By saying that he wants to show them something.

5. What memory does the narrator bring to mind at the end of Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE?
(a) The narrator is reminded that he will not be part of his brothers' lives anymore.
(b) The narrator is reminded he will no longer have a mother.
(c) The narrator is brought back to a time when he was picked on by his brothers.
(d) The narrator realizes he will be sent to a psychiatric ward.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do in the theater at the museum in Chapter 17: NIAGARA?

3. Why does Ma most likely call the truck, "that truck" instead of "the truck"?

4. What does Manny walk toward after seeing the headbanger in Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS?

5. Why does Paps think it is Manny's idea for the brothers escape and sleep away from home in Chapter 15, TRASH KITES?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS, the narrator says, "Why won't you look at me, my brothers, why won't you take my eyes?" (97). Why does the other want his brothers to "take his eyes"?

2. How does the narrator react to seeing his journal in Ma's lap at the end of the novel?

3. How does the narrator relate a stray cat's neglect of drinking milk they have given to her to Ma?

4. In Chapter 18, THE NIGHT I AM MADE (subsection: MIDNIGHT), why do Manny and Joel say that the narrator is "...fucked up..." (110)?

5. What doubts does the narrator have about why he wrote his personal longings in his journal?

6. At the start of Chapter 16, WASN'T NO ONE TO STOP THIS, while playing a game, what do the brothers' imitation of Paps divulge about their sensibilities?

7. Why does the narrator believe that his family is so furious about what he has written in his journal?

8. How does the narrator feel when Paps holds him over Niagara Falls? What might this narrator's intuition say about the narrator?

9. What do you believe is Ma's original intention when she takes the brothers to the park? How does the reader know that?

10. Why is it unusual for the narrator to be dancing like a "mer-man prince" (100) at the museum theater in Niagara Falls?

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