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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What celebrity does Merry become obsessed with as a child?
(a) Eva Gabor.
(b) Greta Garbo.
(c) Audrey Hepburn.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

3. What sport did the narrator play with Swede's younger brother?
(a) Football.
(b) Ping pong.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Baseball.

4. What does the narrator say that adolescents sought more of compared to the adults in his neighborhood?
(a) Higher ideals.
(b) Better education.
(c) Sexual freedom.
(d) Drive faster.

5. What is the name of Merry's hometown?
(a) Providence.
(b) Boston.
(c) Rimrock.
(d) Newark.

6. How does the narrator say Dawn feels toward Merry?
(a) She pities her.
(b) She loves her.
(c) She misses her.
(d) She hates her.

7. 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 profile on him.
(d) A tribute to his father.

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

9. Who is the recipient of a 14-year-old girl's kidney at Nathan's class reunion?
(a) Jim Dwyer.
(b) Marvin Lieb.
(c) Julius Pincus.
(d) Jerry Levov.

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

11. Whom does Merry ask Swede to kiss her like when they are returning from a seaside cottage in Chapter 3?
(a) A pet.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A daughter.
(d) A girlfriend.

12. What is the narrator's profession?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A writer.
(d) A pharmacist.

13. 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.

14. How many days before Nathan's class reunion did Swede die?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merry become temporarily interested in as a child that is associated with her grandmother?

2. Whom does Jerry not say Swede had to live with that caused pressure on him when talking to Nathan at the class reunion?

3. How old is Nathan as he prepares a speech for his high school reunion in the book?

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

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

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