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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Paps listening to the radio when the boys come home after school in Chapter 3, THE HERITAGE (8)?
2. What do the brothers do with the baby robins that they find in the woods?
3. What do the brothers find in the crawlspace at the end of Chapter 9, TALK TO ME?
4. What does the pregnant woman tell the brothers about babies outside the drugstore?
5. Why are grocery stores and banks closed when Ma takes her sons to run errands?
Short Essay Questions
1. As the brothers hid in the bathtub, Paps and Ma pretend to not know and do not immediately come to find them. What deep fears does the narrator share about this lack of attention?
2. What metaphorical significance can be determined by the fact that Ma and the narrator cannot swim and hang on to Paps in order to stay afloat?
3. How does the narrator feel when Paps and Ma discover him after the narrator nearly drowns in the lake?
4. Why does Ma not want the narrator to get older like his other brothers?
5. What previous incident may have led Joel to ask a pregnant woman outside a drugstore if she was tricked into having a baby?
6. Why is the narrator confused when Ma asks him why he is unable to swim in Chapter 5, LAKE?
7. Why do the narrator and Joel hide in a crawlspace when Paps returns home after being gone for many days?
8. How does the narrator differentiate the brothers' behavior in relation to when Ma is awake or asleep?
9. At the end of Chapter 10, NIGHT WATCH, Paps says,"We're never going to escape this...Never" (60). What is he sure the narrator's family will not escape?
10. How does Paps coerce Ma into not being so irate about about the new truck?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ma takes the brothers to a church service on the narrator's birthday and shows them a painting of monks. The narrator sees them as "men of hoods with clasped hands and eyes lifted upward" (13). The narrator is especially mesmerized by these men. Later on in the novel, the narrator confesses to Ma that he wants to be a monk. Why might the reader want to become a religious man? How would becoming a monk change the trajectory of his life and assist him in escaping his own demons?
Essay Topic 2
The Old Man shares an analogy with the brothers about locusts that the narrator has trouble deciphering. The narrator ends the Chapter speculating, "And the other locusts, what's wrong with them, why do they come last, and what's left for them to eat?" (38). How does this quote fit the narrator's view on his own fears about identity and belonging? What does this explanation of this chain of events represent in the greater themes of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
The final Chapter, ZOOKEEPING is only one page long, but it is still one of the most moving. The narrator's perception of reality are ambiguous and scattered. Review the final chapter for clues about the mental state of the narrator. Summarize how the chapter provides closure, even though it is not explicitly written. How does the writing of the final chapter shift from previous chapters? What does the last line of the chapter represent about how the narrator is handling his situation in the psychiatric ward?
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