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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Swede knock Bill down in high school?
(a) For being a bully.
(b) For being mean.
(c) For making Dawn feel looked down upon.
(d) For insulting him.

2. What does Swede realize Merry is in after he admits she has destroyed herself?
(a) Psychosis.
(b) Denial.
(c) A world of hate.
(d) Deep depression.

3. How long did Swede have an affair with Sheila Salzman?
(a) Four months.
(b) Six months.
(c) A year.
(d) One month.

4. What city does Dawn go to for her facelift?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Geneva.

5. What does Swede learn that Merry has become in Chapter 6?
(a) A Baptist.
(b) A Buddhist.
(c) A Jain.
(d) A Hindu.

6. What does the narrator say that Bill always challenged in Dawn?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) Her mood.
(c) Her vanity.
(d) Her confidence.

7. What motto does Merry have written on her wall as a young woman?
(a) We are the incubation of your mother's nightmares.
(b) We will fight America to the last.
(c) Live free or die.
(d) Agile, Mobile, Hostile.

8. Where does Swede take a phone call from at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Poland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Belarus.

9. What does Swede confront Sheila about in Chapter 9?
(a) Their affair.
(b) Her hiding Merry.
(c) Her mistreatment of him.
(d) Dawn.

10. How does Bill take Swede's comment that Bill would be happy living in his house in Chapter 9?
(a) As a slip of the tongue.
(b) As hatefulness.
(c) As a joke.
(d) As a mistake.

11. What does Swede decide about the person that calls him that causes him to hang up on that person in Chapter 9?
(a) That she doesn't exist.
(b) That he's done trying.
(c) That she has no power.
(d) That he's tired of it.

12. What is the name of a Jewish man who praises Swede and pressures him to join a local Jewish organization?
(a) Bucky.
(b) Barry.
(c) Lou.
(d) Ira.

13. What does Merry admit to Swede that she is not compassionate enough to quit eating but will eventually in Chapter 6?
(a) Dairy.
(b) Fish.
(c) Plant life.
(d) Meat.

14. How is Bill described when he talks with Swede's wife just after having sex with her?
(a) Careful.
(b) Unblushing.
(c) Loud.
(d) Quiet.

15. What did Merry study that is the reverence of life?
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Ahimsa.
(d) The Torah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what country did Swede join the marines for a final assault over in the book?

2. What does Swede decide that Sheila is rather than omniscient?

3. What does Marcia compare Dawn's beauty pageant to in Chapter 8?

4. Which of the following words was not used to describe Bill's wife?

5. Since what occurrence does the narrator say Dawn hasn't been motivated to do anything in regard to Merry?

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