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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. What is the name of the black worker at Swede's factory that stays with him during the riots?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Merry.
(c) Vicky.
(d) Joy.

2. What kind of monks does Merry watch on television as a child?
(a) Korean.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Vietnamese.
(d) Japanese.

3. What does the narrator believe the tribute to Swede's father was a cover to hide?
(a) His depression.
(b) His cancer.
(c) The pain associated with his daughter.
(d) His missing his wife.

4. What is the narrator's profession?
(a) A writer.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A pharmacist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merry stop doing as a teen in regards to hygiene?

2. What does Nathan's old girlfriend that he runs into at the reunion tell him she regrets never letting him do?

3. What age is Merry when she and Swede are at a seaside cottage 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. Where did Swede's father open a second location of his store after the depression?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rita taunt Swede sexually in Chapter 4?

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

4. What is Nathan fascinated with in regard to his childhood culture?

5. What does Rita tell Swede that Merry says about him and her mother?

6. What does Merry begin doing in New York as a teenager?

7. How does the narrator describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?

8. What does Nathan reminisce about regarding his high school memories while preparing a speech for his reunion?

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

10. How does the narrator say Swede's grandfather became a glove manufacturer?

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