Portnoy's Complaint Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Portnoy's Complaint Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's mother called in high school?
(a) Soapie.
(b) Rosie.
(c) Red.
(d) Girly.

2. What does the narrator use like it "grows in trees" according to his father?
(a) Money.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Newspapers.

3. What does the narrator's mother give the cleaning lady for lunch?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Steak.
(d) Tuna.

4. How old is the narrator in the present in Chapter 4, part 2?
(a) Thirty-three.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Thirty.

5. What is the narrator's favorite winter meal?
(a) Lamb stew.
(b) Beef stew.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Goulash.

6. What is the narrator's mother's name?
(a) Miranda.
(b) Isabel.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Sophie.

7. Who is the woman whom the narrator has a longer affair with than most?
(a) The Monkey.
(b) Mary Andrews.
(c) Anne Williams.
(d) Tiffany McMann.

8. The narrator refers, in Chapter 4, to his father being "a real Jewish" what?
(a) Desperado.
(b) Rebel.
(c) Cowboy.
(d) Clown.

9. What does the narrator's mother tell him to give to his father in Chapter 4?
(a) A kiss.
(b) A tie.
(c) A loan.
(d) A card.

10. What was in the letter that Ronald Nimkin left as his final words to his mother?
(a) That he hated her.
(b) That he was gay.
(c) That it was her fault he killed himself.
(d) To bring the mah-jongg rules to the game tonight.

11. Who does the narrator describe as "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met?"
(a) His wife.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His first-grade teacher.

12. What does the narrator's mother do when he does something wrong?
(a) Sends him to his father.
(b) Spanks him.
(c) Locks him out of the apartment.
(d) Refuses to feed him.

13. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Cunt Crazy.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Woman Crazy.
(d) Totally Crazy.

14. What does the narrator's mother threaten him with when he refuses to eat dinner?
(a) Being grounded.
(b) Starvation.
(c) A bread knife.
(d) A gun.

15. What is the name of the narrator's father's coworker who bamboozled his mother into eating lobster?
(a) Allen.
(b) Flannery.
(c) Doyle.
(d) Francois.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Christian children are in the high school where the narrator attends?

2. What is the narrator's uncle's name?

3. What does the narrator say his desires are in Chapter 4?

4. What does the narrator remark about the woman whom his father brings home to dinner?

5. What is the narrator's cousin's name who lives in Newark?

(see the answer keys)

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