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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 kind of monks does Merry watch on television as a child?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Korean.
2. 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.
3. What is the name of the family that Merry says she stays with when visiting New York in Chapter 3?
(a) Orcutt.
(b) Levov.
(c) Umanoff.
(d) Helpern.
4. What does the narrator say that the Jews that were familiar with hardship did not want to waste?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Opportunities.
5. What is the name of Nathan's old girlfriend that he runs into at his reunion?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Joy.
(c) Sylvia.
(d) Vicky.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say the adolescents had respect for in regard to their parents in his neighborhood?
2. Swede's healthy self-image changes so that he senses his life is what in Chapter 3?
3. What does Swede wonder is connected with his preoccupations regarding Merry at the end of Chapter 4?
4. In what state did Swede grow up?
5. What does the narrator tell Jerry that the nostalgia of the reunion is least likely to present to explain why he came?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the adolescents in Nathan's neighborhood described in Chapter 2?
2. How does the narrator describe the post-war energy of his neighborhood in Chapter 2?
3. What is the nature of the description of Newark Maid Leatherware?
4. What happens when Merry asks Swede if he would kiss her as he did her mother when she was a young child?
5. How are Merry's physical attributes described as she grows up?
6. What is Nathan fascinated with in regard to his childhood culture?
7. What does Rita tell Swede that Merry says about him and her mother?
8. How does Rita taunt Swede sexually in Chapter 4?
9. How is Rita's first visit to the glove factory described?
10. What is the nature of Nathan's reminiscence about "The Kid from Tomkinsville"?
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