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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Swede see having sex in the kitchen of his house at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Dawn and Bill.
(b) Dawn and Barry.
(c) Bill and Marcia.
(d) Jim and Sylvia.

2. Where does Rita tell Swede that Merry is working in Chapter 5?
(a) Newark.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Boston.
(d) New Haven.

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

4. What kind of people does Swede believe Merry could have fallen in with to explain her life?
(a) Wrong ones.
(b) Foolish ones.
(c) Mean ones.
(d) Bad ones.

5. What story does Swede feel he relates to when he moves to the
(a) Huck Finn.
(b) Paul Bunyan.
(c) Johnny Appleseed.
(d) Daniel Boone.

6. What is the name of the architect building Dawn and Swede's new home?
(a) Shelly Salzman.
(b) Ira Posner.
(c) Bill Orcutt.
(d) Mendy Gurlik.

7. What has Dawn made after going through the emotional devastation of losing Merry according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) No effort.
(b) Great strides.
(c) No progress.
(d) Little steps.

8. How far had Merry had been working from Swede's glove factory when Rita contacts him in Chapter 5?
(a) Five minutes.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) One hour.
(d) Ten minutes.

9. Whom does Swede feel are delighted with the outcome of corrupted children?
(a) Radical groups.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Merry.
(d) His parents.

10. Since what occurrence does the narrator say Dawn hasn't been motivated to do anything in regard to Merry?
(a) Her parents' death.
(b) The bombing.
(c) Her pageant days.
(d) Merry's disappearance.

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

12. What does Swede confront Sheila about in Chapter 9?
(a) Her mistreatment of him.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Her hiding Merry.
(d) Their affair.

13. Where does Swede take a phone call from at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Russia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Belarus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What almost happens to Lou after Jerry finds out that he sent his ex-wife money?

2. Where does Swede recall knocking Bill flat when they were in high school?

3. What is Bill Orcutt's wife's name?

4. How many vows of renunciation does Merry say she has taken in the book?

5. What kind of business of Dawn's had Swede sold a year after Merry's disappearance?

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