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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does Swede fail to call after Rita threatens him?
(a) The IRS.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The local police.
(d) The FBI.

3. What does Nathan's old girlfriend that he runs into at the reunion tell him she regrets never letting him do?
(a) Marry her.
(b) Touch her breasts.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Hugg her.

4. What does Swede's athletic performance help his community forget about?
(a) The plague.
(b) Death.
(c) Their debt.
(d) The war.

5. What kind of dance class does Merry take as a young girl?
(a) Ballroom.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Ballet.
(d) Tap.

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

7. Where did Swede's father open a second location of his store after the depression?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Canada.
(c) Puerto Rico.
(d) Manhattan.

8. What does Swede explain everything about to Rita when they first meet?
(a) Children.
(b) Glove making.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Merry.

9. What is the name of the neighborhood in which Swede grew up?
(a) Weequahic.
(b) Passaic.
(c) Winnipeg.
(d) Bayonne.

10. What does the narrator meet with Swede to write about near the end of Chapter 1?
(a) An obituary.
(b) A story on his daughter Merry.
(c) A tribute to his father.
(d) A profile on him.

11. What trait is given to Dawn when she is first described in Chapter 4?
(a) Rude.
(b) Hateful.
(c) Vain.
(d) Mean.

12. What does an article about Merry say about her that Swede hates?
(a) She is hateful.
(b) She is from a bad family.
(c) She is insane.
(d) That she has a stubborn streak.

13. What is the name of Swede's father?
(a) Bill.
(b) Lou.
(c) Ira.
(d) Jim.

14. What is Swede's last name in the book?
(a) Umanoff.
(b) Levov.
(c) Orcutt.
(d) Salzman.

15. Swede's healthy self-image changes so that he senses his life is what in Chapter 3?
(a) Out of control.
(b) In control.
(c) Damaged.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Merry is Swede more patient and accepting of than her mother is?

2. What sport did the narrator play with Swede's younger brother?

3. Which of the following words does the narrator not use to describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?

4. Which of the following things does the narrator not say Swede's athletic talent obligated him to be?

5. How many days before Nathan's class reunion did Swede die?

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