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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 the narrator say that Bill always challenged in Dawn?
(a) Her mood.
(b) Her vanity.
(c) Her confidence.
(d) Her beauty.

2. 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.

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

4. Whom does Swede decide to call at the end of Chapter 6 to talk about Merry?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Lou.
(d) Ira.

5. Which of the following things does Sheila not say to Swede regarding Merry in Chapter 9?
(a) She needed to run.
(b) She was strong.
(c) She needed her.
(d) She had changed dramatically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Merry study that is the reverence of life?

2. What does Swede realize that Merry has been since she was fifteen after he sees her in Chapter 6?

3. What does Lou do to Swede for hanging onto the factory in Newark?

4. What does Swede confront Sheila about in Chapter 9?

5. What movie do Lou and Swede discuss in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Marcia remark about regarding social conditions in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

8. What realization does Swede come to about Sheila in Chapter 9?

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

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

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