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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 narrator's name in the book?
(a) Swede Levov.
(b) Bill Orcutt.
(c) Nathan Zuckerman.
(d) Jerry Levov.
2. What does Rita tell Swede that she needs to get of Merry's during their first meeting?
(a) Money.
(b) Some clothes.
(c) Her stuttering diary.
(d) Her Audrey Hepburn scrapbook.
3. What kind of dance class does Merry take as a young girl?
(a) Ballroom.
(b) Ballet.
(c) Tap.
(d) Jazz.
4. What does the narrator say that adolescents sought more of compared to the adults in his neighborhood?
(a) Drive faster.
(b) Sexual freedom.
(c) Better education.
(d) Higher ideals.
5. Whom does Swede remember watching on TV and has an imaginary conversation with in Chapter 4?
(a) Rita Cohen.
(b) Joy Helpern.
(c) Angela Davis.
(d) Dorothy Dwyer.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following words does the narrator not use to describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?
2. What is the profession of the man who was killed in a bomb Merry set off in her hometown?
3. What sport did the narrator play with Swede's younger brother?
4. Whom does Merry ask Swede to kiss her like when they are returning from a seaside cottage in Chapter 3?
5. What does Swede wonder is connected with his preoccupations regarding Merry at the end of Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe the lack of a generation gap in his neighborhood?
2. How is Jerry described at the beginning of Chapter 3?
3. What does Merry begin doing in New York as a teenager?
4. How are the adolescents in Nathan's neighborhood described in Chapter 2?
5. What does Rita tell Swede that Merry says about him and her mother?
6. Describe Rita and Swede's conversation after she reveals she is Merry's friend in Chapter 4?
7. How is Rita's first visit to the glove factory described?
8. What happens when Merry asks Swede if he would kiss her as he did her mother when she was a young child?
9. How does the narrator describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?
10. What is the nature of Nathan's reminiscence about "The Kid from Tomkinsville"?
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