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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator keep on his bedroom wall to keep track of the war?
(a) A poster.
(b) A flag.
(c) A map.
(d) A wartime list.

2. What is the name of a Jewish man who praises Swede and pressures him to join a local Jewish organization?
(a) Barry.
(b) Ira.
(c) Lou.
(d) Bucky.

3. What is Merry able to explain Jainism to Swede without doing?
(a) Sneering.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Stuttering.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

4. What is the name of Barry's militant non-conformist wife?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Jessie.
(d) Marcia.

5. What does Swede describe Dawn and Bill as at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Aliens.
(b) Rogues.
(c) Strangers.
(d) Predators.

6. Who is the name of the person at the gas station that the narrator remembers the day the war ended?
(a) Mac.
(b) Ira.
(c) Bill.
(d) Bucky.

7. What did Merry study that is the reverence of life?
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Torah.
(d) Ahimsa.

8. How much money does Rita keep from Merry that was from Swede?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $15,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $1,000.

9. What did Dr. Salzman counsel the Levovs about?
(a) Their home.
(b) Their marriage.
(c) Dawn's facelift.
(d) Merry's disappearance.

10. In what state did Merry set off her second bomb?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Colorado.
(d) California.

11. What does Marcia compare Dawn's beauty pageant to in Chapter 8?
(a) Genius.
(b) Celebrity.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Pornography.

12. Whose meetings were described as the American Pastoral par excellence?
(a) Marcia and Dawn.
(b) Bill and Swede.
(c) Lou and Dawn's father.
(d) Dawn and Swede.

13. How many vows of renunciation does Merry say she has taken in the book?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

14. What kind of condition had Dawn been suffering for five years after Merry's disappearance?
(a) Psychosis
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Suicidal depression.
(d) Schizophrenia.

15. What does Swede feel he is in that is "carved out of time from which he would never be extricated"?
(a) A bed.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say is the one who helped Merry become herself?

2. What does Swede realize Merry is in after he admits she has destroyed herself?

3. Against what country did Swede join the marines for a final assault over in the book?

4. Who laughs at the end of Chapter 9 after Jessie stabs Lou with a fork?

5. What is the name of Dawn's doctor who gave her the facelift?

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