American Pastoral Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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American Pastoral Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years does Swede become preoccupied with "a gruesome inner life" concerning Merry in Chapter 4?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

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

4. What does Rita say should happen to Swede for what he pays the workers in other countries to work in his factories?
(a) He should be shot.
(b) He should be jailed.
(c) He should be hanged.
(d) He should be rewarded.

5. What kind of diary does Rita later make Swede give to her for Merry in Chapter 4?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Her Audrey Hepburn scrapbook.
(c) A stuttering diary.
(d) Money.

6. What does the narrator say had not changed about Jerry besides his silly gait?
(a) His silly hair.
(b) His long arms.
(c) His odd legs.
(d) His goofy smile.

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

8. How is Rita's hair described in the book?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Stringy.
(c) Straight.
(d) Bushy.

9. What is Swede's younger brother's name?
(a) Ira.
(b) Bill.
(c) Jerry.
(d) Jim.

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

11. How many years had Swede's daughter been in hiding according to Jerry in Chapter 3?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Merry?

2. What does Swede explain everything about to Rita when they first meet?

3. What kind of world does the narrator note that Swede has naturally incorporated himself into?

4. What is the name of the store Swede's father opened after the depression?

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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