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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Swede's features described in Chapter 1?
(a) Brooding.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Dark.
(d) Gentile.

2. What is Swede's younger brother's name?
(a) Jim.
(b) Ira.
(c) Bill.
(d) Jerry.

3. What sport did the narrator play with Swede's younger brother?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Football.
(d) Ping pong.

4. What does the narrator meet with Swede to write about near the end of Chapter 1?
(a) A story on his daughter Merry.
(b) A tribute to his father.
(c) A profile on him.
(d) An obituary.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's name in the book?

3. Whom does the man that tells Nathan he wrote a paper for him in school say his life was changed by?

4. What year did Nathan graduate from high school?

5. What does the narrator say that the Jews that were familiar with hardship did not want to waste?

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