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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 business of Dawn's had Swede sold a year after Merry's disappearance?
(a) A deli.
(b) Cattle ranch.
(c) Clothing store.
(d) Jewelry store.

2. What is Lou concerned about along with children in Chapter 8?
(a) His weight.
(b) His job.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Money.

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

4. How many vows of renunciation does Merry say she has taken in the book?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

5. What did Merry study that is the reverence of life?
(a) Ahimsa.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Koran.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the trip to that Dawn and Swede took that Dawn discusses at the dinner party in Chapter 9?

2. How much money does Rita keep from Merry that was from Swede?

3. Who does Swede see having sex in the kitchen of his house at the end of Chapter 7?

4. What does Swede decide about the person that calls him that causes him to hang up on that person in Chapter 9?

5. What does Swede describe Dawn and Bill as at the end of Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Marcia describe Dawn's beauty pageants?

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

4. How does Sheila explain her reason for taking Merry in, to Swede in Chapter 9?

5. How does Dawn describe her home with Swede to her architect?

6. What does Swede ponder about when thinking of Rita stealing his money?

7. How does Swede suggest that the Miss New Jersey pageant ruined Dawn?

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

9. How does Merry live as a Jain?

10. How does Swede describe the time during the riots with his employee Vicky?

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