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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say Dawn feels toward Merry?
(a) She loves her.
(b) She misses her.
(c) She pities her.
(d) She hates her.

2. Where is Nathan's friend Alan a superior court judge?
(a) California.
(b) Florida.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Michigan.

3. Where does Swede take his first wife to receive a facelift?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

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

5. Who is the recipient of a 14-year-old girl's kidney at Nathan's class reunion?
(a) Julius Pincus.
(b) Marvin Lieb.
(c) Jerry Levov.
(d) Jim Dwyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's profession?

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

3. How old is Nathan as he prepares a speech for his high school reunion in the book?

4. What is the name of the man that tells Nathan he wrote a paper for him in school at his class reunion?

5. What is Rita's last name in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Merry's physical attributes described as she grows up?

2. How are the adolescents in Nathan's neighborhood described in Chapter 2?

3. What happens when Merry asks Swede if he would kiss her as he did her mother when she was a young child?

4. How is Rita's first visit to the glove factory described?

5. What is the nature of Nathan's conversation with Ira at the high school reunion?

6. What reason does Nathan give Jerry for coming to the reunion?

7. How is Jerry described at the beginning of Chapter 3?

8. What does Nathan decide he will do to complete his story on Swede in Chapter 3?

9. How is Merry's bombing in her hometown at the end of Chapter 3 described?

10. How does Swede describe glove making to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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