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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who influenced Merry's thinking about woman revolutionaries and their need to sacrifice?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Frantz Fanon.
(c) Angela Davis.
(d) Mother Theresa.

3. Whom is Lou ashamed of because this person keeps getting divorced?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Swede.
(c) Ira.
(d) Nathan.

4. What is Swede's daughter's name?
(a) Angela.
(b) Merry.
(c) Dorothy.
(d) Joy.

5. Which of the following words does the narrator not use to describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?
(a) Vibrant.
(b) Forward looking.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Optimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nathan's friend Alan a superior court judge?

2. What does Swede's daughter have to see a therapist for as a child?

3. What does Swede's brother refer to him as because he cannot take the brutality of the world?

4. Where does the narrator say Mendy now live as a restaurant owner?

5. What has Dawn made after going through the emotional devastation of losing Merry according to the narrator in Chapter 7?

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