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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that Bill always challenged in Dawn?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) Her vanity.
(c) Her confidence.
(d) Her mood.

2. What is Merry able to explain Jainism to Swede without doing?
(a) Sneering.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Stuttering.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

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

4. What does the narrator say the adolescents had respect for in regard to their parents in his neighborhood?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Sexual freedom.
(c) Their productivity.
(d) Their values.

5. Who does Swede see pretending to listen closely in Chapter 9?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Sheila.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Merry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Swede remember watching on TV and has an imaginary conversation with in Chapter 4?

2. What does Swede remember his mother's face not showing so much of in Chapter 7?

3. How many years does Swede become preoccupied with "a gruesome inner life" concerning Merry in Chapter 4?

4. Nathan's friend Alan is the son of what?

5. What military force does Swede join as a teenager?

(see the answer key)

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