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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. How much money did the narrator pay to the prostitute in Italy?
(a) Fifteen thousand lire.
(b) Twenty thousand lire.
(c) Ten thousand lire.
(d) One thousand lire.

2. What does the narrator say that he and the Monkey took back to their hotel in Rome?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A cat.
(c) A married couple.
(d) A dog.

3. What are the names of the "bad boys" with whom the narrator spends time in his youth?
(a) Heshie and Jason.
(b) Mendel and Smolka.
(c) Kevin and Agnew.
(d) Roger and Mendel.

4. What does the narrator say he did after the incident with the prostitute?
(a) Vomited.
(b) Laughed.
(c) Prayed.
(d) Cried.

5. What is the name of the woman whom the narrator dates in Connecticut?
(a) Elizabeth Stewart.
(b) Sarah Abbott Maulsby.
(c) Mary Ann Williams.
(d) Jennifer McCathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator demand from Mandel at the end of Chapter 4?

2. Where does the narrator say he abandoned the Monkey?

3. How old was the Monkey when she arrived in New York?

4. What does the narrator say that his Rabbi smelled like?

5. Who does the last woman the narrator has interest in remind him of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Alex tell of the Monkey with the married couple?

2. What attracts Alex to Naomi? How does he express his feelings for her?

3. Who is Bubbles? What was she to Alex?

4. How does the narrator's first sexual experience occur with Bubbles?

5. What does the narrator say about his resentment for his Jewishness and shikses in Chapter 4?

6. Who is the second shikse Alex speaks about being involved with in Chapter 5? How is she described?

7. What does the memories of the Monkey conjure in Alex's memory in Chapter 4?

8. What does the narrator recall which might be "the root of his problems" in Chapter 4 regarding his mother?

9. What does the narrator retell about the burlesque show in Chapter 4?

10. What does Alex remark about Israel?

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