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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Nathan's old girlfriend that he runs into at his reunion?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Joy.
(c) Vicky.
(d) Sylvia.

2. What religion does Swede practice?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Presbyterianism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Catholicism.

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

4. What does Jerry tell Nathan that Swede fought to keep in Chapter 3?
(a) His money.
(b) His group together.
(c) His family.
(d) His sanity.

5. What is Mendy's last name in the book?
(a) Orcutt.
(b) Levov.
(c) Dwyer.
(d) Gurlik.

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

7. How old is Nathan as he prepares a speech for his high school reunion in the book?
(a) Sixty-two.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Fifty-five.
(d) Sixty-five.

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

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

10. What kind of world does the narrator note that Swede has naturally incorporated himself into?
(a) Poor.
(b) Wasp.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Wealthy.

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

12. Where is the bombing done by the Weathermen with which Swede believes Merry to be involved?
(a) Greenwich Village.
(b) Newark.
(c) Soho.
(d) Portland.

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

14. What age is Merry when she and Swede are at a seaside cottage in the book?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Nine.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Thirteen.

15. What military force does Swede join as a teenager?
(a) The Marines.
(b) The Navy.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's name in the book?

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

3. What does the narrator say that the Jews that were familiar with hardship did not want to waste?

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

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

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