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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator say Mendy now live as a restaurant owner?
(a) Georgia.
(b) New York.
(c) Florida.
(d) Texas.

3. Who is the recipient of a 14-year-old girl's kidney at Nathan's class reunion?
(a) Jerry Levov.
(b) Julius Pincus.
(c) Jim Dwyer.
(d) Marvin Lieb.

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

5. Who is the man that pays alimony for two marriages at Nathan's class reunion?
(a) Bill Orcutt.
(b) Shelly Salzman.
(c) Ira Posner.
(d) Marvin Lieb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator meet with Swede to write about near the end of Chapter 1?

2. What is Swede's entire community in love with in regard to him?

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

4. What is the name of Swede's father?

5. How are Swede's features described in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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