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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of cancer did Nathan suffer from?
(a) Prostate.
(b) Brain.
(c) Liver.
(d) Lung.

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

3. Where does Merry meet political people and take on a secret life as a teenager?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) New York.

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

5. What is Rita's last name in the book?
(a) Salzman.
(b) Dwyer.
(c) Davis.
(d) Cohen.

6. What does Jerry say Swede lacked and is what killed him when talking with Nathan at the class reunion?
(a) Rage.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Street smarts.

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

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

9. What does one of Merry's doctors suggest it is easier for her to do than to face the high pressure of perfection?
(a) Cry.
(b) Stutter.
(c) Lisp.
(d) Hide.

10. What is the name of the family that Merry says she stays with when visiting New York in Chapter 3?
(a) Levov.
(b) Helpern.
(c) Umanoff.
(d) Orcutt.

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

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

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

14. Whom does Swede remember watching on TV and has an imaginary conversation with in Chapter 4?
(a) Rita Cohen.
(b) Joy Helpern.
(c) Dorothy Dwyer.
(d) Angela Davis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Swede's entire community in love with in regard to him?

3. What does Rita say should happen to Swede for what he pays the workers in other countries to work in his factories?

4. The narrator notes what about his neighborhood as a youth?

5. Besides being self-absorbed, what other word is used to describe Swede's daughter in Chapter 3?

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