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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 beach does the narrator's family stay at during the summers?
(a) Atlantic City.
(b) Neptune Beach.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) Bradley Beach.

2. What did the narrator's father encourage him to take a course in in high school?
(a) Typing.
(b) Woodworking.
(c) Shorthand.
(d) Home Economics.

3. Where does the narrator's family move in 1941?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Newark.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Brooklyn.

4. Who does the narrator's father hold up as someone to emulate in life?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) William Rockefeller.
(c) Walter Winchell.
(d) Billy Rose.

5. Where did the narrator eat a seafood dinner with his sister and her fiance in Chapter 4?
(a) Jersey City.
(b) Brooklyn Heights.
(c) Sheepshead Bay.
(d) Park Slope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the neighborhood women play with the narrator's mother?

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

3. What does the narrator say is "very funny on the stage--but not to live it"?

4. What sport is the narrator obsessed with?

5. What did the narrator eat that was his sister's?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about the laws of Judaism?

2. What were the narrator's father's ambitions for him growing up?

3. What does the narrator's father urge him to take lessons in? Why?

4. What is the one meaningful conversation the narrator speaks of having with his sister in Chapter 3?

5. What story does the narrator tell about Ronald Nimkin?

6. What does the narrator speak of regarding his humiliations with his mother as a child in Chapter 3?

7. What is the story the narrator tells in the beginning of Chapter 4? Why does he do what he does in this story?

8. How did the narrator's father feel about his job? How did he express his feelings to his family?

9. How does the narrator describe his sister in their early years?

10. Where does the narrator's father work? What line of business is he in? Where is his "route?"

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