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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merry become temporarily interested in as a child that is associated with her grandmother?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Presbyterianism.

2. What does Swede wonder is connected with his preoccupations regarding Merry at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) His background.
(b) His job.
(c) Dawn.
(d) The kiss he gave Merry.

3. Besides being self-absorbed, what other word is used to describe Swede's daughter in Chapter 3?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Mean.
(c) Fat.
(d) Ugly.

4. Nathan's friend Alan is the son of what?
(a) A dry cleaner.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A driver.
(d) A doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of world does the narrator note that Swede has naturally incorporated himself into?

2. What is Swede's younger brother's name?

3. Swede's healthy self-image changes so that he senses his life is what in Chapter 3?

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

5. Whom does Swede fail to call after Rita threatens him?

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