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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Pages 89 - 113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Nathan graduate from high school?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1935.

2. What does Swede's daughter do to the local post office and general store as a radical stunt?
(a) Bulldozes it.
(b) Bombs it.
(c) Sets it on fire.
(d) Robs it.

3. What is the narrator's name in the book?
(a) Bill Orcutt.
(b) Jerry Levov.
(c) Nathan Zuckerman.
(d) Swede Levov.

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) An obituary.
(c) A tribute to his father.
(d) A profile on him.

5. What does the narrator suggest Swede's manner in kissing Merry when returning from the seaside cottage did to her?
(a) Ruined her.
(b) Harmed her.
(c) Saddened her.
(d) Killed her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first war Merry become militant about?

2. What kind of cancer did Nathan suffer from?

3. What does Jerry tell Nathan that Swede fought to keep in Chapter 3?

4. What does the narrator tell Jerry that the nostalgia of the reunion is least likely to present to explain why he came?

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

(see the answer key)

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