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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. Whose meetings were described as the American Pastoral par excellence?
(a) Lou and Dawn's father.
(b) Marcia and Dawn.
(c) Bill and Swede.
(d) Dawn and Swede.

2. What does Swede decide that Sheila is rather than omniscient?
(a) Cold.
(b) Hateful.
(c) Mean.
(d) Kind.

3. What does Lou do to Swede for hanging onto the factory in Newark?
(a) Helps him.
(b) Encourages him.
(c) Criticizes him.
(d) Shames him.

4. How does Bill take Swede's comment that Bill would be happy living in his house in Chapter 9?
(a) As hatefulness.
(b) As a mistake.
(c) As a slip of the tongue.
(d) As a joke.

5. What does Swede describe Dawn and Bill as at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Predators.
(b) Strangers.
(c) Rogues.
(d) Aliens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swede realize Merry is in after he admits she has destroyed herself?

2. Where does Rita tell Swede that Merry is working in Chapter 5?

3. What does the person Swede calls after he has seen Merry in Chapter 6 tell him to do in regard to Merry?

4. Who is the name of the person at the gas station that the narrator remembers the day the war ended?

5. What does Marcia compare Dawn's beauty pageant to in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Swede witness when he walks in on Dawn and Bill in his kitchen during the dinner party?

2. How does Swede describe Barry Umanoff and Marcia Schwartz's marriage?

3. How does Swede describe Bill and Dawn in the end of Chapter 8?

4. Why did Dawn choose to raise cattle according to the narrator?

5. What does Merry tell Swede she did while in Miami in Chapter 6?

6. What is the nature of Swede's phone call with Rita at the beginning of Chapter 9?

7. What is the nature of Swede's memory of knocking Bill out on the football field?

8. What is the nature of the letter Swede receives from Rita at the beginning of Chapter 5?

9. How does Swede compare his life to Johnny Appleseed?

10. How are Lou's feelings towards the Nixon administration described in the book?

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