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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Swede use to describe his father as a mix with antagonism?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Shame.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Pain.

2. What does Swede's brother refer to him as because he cannot take the brutality of the world?
(a) A loser.
(b) Heartless.
(c) A bear.
(d) Gentle giant.

3. Who influenced Merry's thinking about woman revolutionaries and their need to sacrifice?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Mother Theresa.
(c) Angela Davis.
(d) Frantz Fanon.

4. How far had Merry had been working from Swede's glove factory when Rita contacts him in Chapter 5?
(a) Five minutes.
(b) Ten minutes.
(c) One hour.
(d) Thirty minutes.

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

6. What is Barry's last name in the book?
(a) Umanoff.
(b) Dwyer.
(c) Posner.
(d) Zuckerman.

7. What kind of condition had Dawn been suffering for five years after Merry's disappearance?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Psychosis
(d) Suicidal depression.

8. Where would Dawn go to swim to get away from others?
(a) Cape May.
(b) Ocean City.
(c) Avon.
(d) Stone Harbor.

9. What does Swede feel he is in that is "carved out of time from which he would never be extricated"?
(a) A bed.
(b) A house.
(c) A coffin.
(d) A nightmare.

10. Whom does Swede feel are delighted with the outcome of corrupted children?
(a) His parents.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Merry.
(d) Radical groups.

11. What does Marcia compare Dawn's beauty pageant to in Chapter 8?
(a) Celebrity.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Pornography.
(d) Genius.

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

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

14. Who laughs at the end of Chapter 9 after Jessie stabs Lou with a fork?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Dorothy.
(d) Rita.

15. What does the narrator say Swede's love for would disgust Merry?
(a) Dawn.
(b) His work.
(c) America.
(d) Judaism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Merry's speech therapist she stayed with after the bombing?

3. What almost happens to Lou after Jerry finds out that he sent his ex-wife money?

4. Who was a great friend with Dawn's father before he passed away?

5. Who calls Swede at the beginning of Chapter 9?

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