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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that adolescents sought more of compared to the adults in his neighborhood?
(a) Drive faster.
(b) Better education.
(c) Higher ideals.
(d) Sexual freedom.

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

3. How many years does Swede become preoccupied with "a gruesome inner life" concerning Merry in Chapter 4?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

4. What does Rita tell Swede that she needs to get of Merry's during their first meeting?
(a) Her stuttering diary.
(b) Some clothes.
(c) Money.
(d) Her Audrey Hepburn scrapbook.

5. What does the narrator say Mendy is now obsessed with?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Merry teach along with revolutionary ideas to Cuban refugees?

2. Whom does Swede remember watching on TV and has an imaginary conversation with in Chapter 4?

3. What is the narrator's profession?

4. Besides being self-absorbed, what other word is used to describe Swede's daughter in Chapter 3?

5. What word is used to describe Bill in addition to his feeling slightly superior?

(see the answer key)

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