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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. What is Barry's last name in the book?
(a) Zuckerman.
(b) Posner.
(c) Umanoff.
(d) Dwyer.

2. Whom is Lou ashamed of because this person keeps getting divorced?
(a) Ira.
(b) Swede.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Jerry.

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

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

5. What does the person Swede calls after he has seen Merry in Chapter 6 tell him to do in regard to Merry?
(a) Send her to a psychiatrist.
(b) Forget her.
(c) Go back and get her.
(d) Turn her over to the FBI.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose widow came to see Swede and was kind and forgiving in Chapter 5?

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

3. What did the narrator keep on his bedroom wall to keep track of the war?

4. What does Swede decide that Sheila is rather than omniscient?

5. What does Swede's brother refer to him as because he cannot take the brutality of the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jessie do to Lou at the end of the book?

2. How does Merry live as a Jain?

3. What does Merry tell Swede she did while in Miami in Chapter 6?

4. What does Marcia remark about regarding social conditions in Chapter 8?

5. How does Marcia describe Dawn's beauty pageants?

6. What is the nature of Lou's discussion regarding the downfall of Newark in Chapter 8?

7. How is Swede's time as a marine described in Chapter 5?

8. What is the nature of the letter Swede receives from Rita at the beginning of Chapter 5?

9. What did Dr. Salzman counsel the Levovs about?

10. How are Lou's feelings towards the Nixon administration described in the book?

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