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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Pages 60 - 89.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator especially fascinated by in regard to his ability to remember his childhood?
(a) How long ago it was.
(b) How much he misses it.
(c) How fond he is of the memories.
(d) The depth of detail.

2. What is the name of the man that tells Nathan he wrote a paper for him in school at his class reunion?
(a) Ira.
(b) Bill.
(c) Bucky.
(d) Barry.

3. What does the narrator say the adolescents had respect for in regard to their parents in his neighborhood?
(a) Their productivity.
(b) Sexual freedom.
(c) Their values.
(d) Intellect.

4. What is Swede's daughter's name?
(a) Joy.
(b) Angela.
(c) Dorothy.
(d) Merry.

5. What does the narrator say Swede is untouched by after their first meeting to write a piece for Swede?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Other people.
(c) Anything negative.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following things does the narrator not say Swede's athletic talent obligated him to be?

2. Which of the following words does the narrator not use to describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?

3. Nathan's friend Alan is the son of what?

4. What year did Nathan graduate from high school?

5. What does Swede's daughter have to see a therapist for as a child?

(see the answer key)

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