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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 does Swede's athletic performance help his community forget about?
(a) The war.
(b) Their debt.
(c) Death.
(d) The plague.

2. Whom does the man that tells Nathan he wrote a paper for him in school say his life was changed by?
(a) Nathan's father.
(b) Swede.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Bill.

3. What is the name of Nathan's old girlfriend that he runs into at his reunion?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Joy.
(d) Vicky.

4. Whom does Jerry not say Swede had to live with that caused pressure on him when talking to Nathan at the class reunion?
(a) Mean son.
(b) Unsatisfiable wife.
(c) Unsatisfiable father.
(d) Monster daughter.

5. What kind of dance class does Merry take as a young girl?
(a) Tap.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Ballroom.
(d) Ballet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rita say should happen to Swede for what he pays the workers in other countries to work in his factories?

2. Where did Swede's father open a second location of his store after the depression?

3. What does the narrator say that adolescents sought more of compared to the adults in his neighborhood?

4. What is Swede's younger brother's name?

5. Besides being self-absorbed, what other word is used to describe Swede's daughter in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator describe the lack of a generation gap in his neighborhood?

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

5. Describe Rita and Swede's conversation after she reveals she is Merry's friend in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator describe Swede and Merry at a seaside cottage and their return from it?

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

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