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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. How long did Swede have an affair with Sheila Salzman?
(a) Six months.
(b) Four months.
(c) One month.
(d) A year.

2. What does Swede learn that Merry has become in Chapter 6?
(a) A Baptist.
(b) A Jain.
(c) A Hindu.
(d) A Buddhist.

3. Whose widow came to see Swede and was kind and forgiving in Chapter 5?
(a) Dr. Conlon's.
(b) Dr. LaPlante's.
(c) Dr. Dwyer's.
(d) Dr. Posner's.

4. What does Swede's brother refer to him as because he cannot take the brutality of the world?
(a) Heartless.
(b) A bear.
(c) Gentle giant.
(d) A loser.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Swede feel are delighted with the outcome of corrupted children?

2. What does Swede feel he is in that is "carved out of time from which he would never be extricated"?

3. What does Marcia say that without transgression there is none of in Chapter 8?

4. Why are the Orcutts and other couples over at Swede's home in Chapter 7?

5. Who calls Swede at the beginning of Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Merry live as a Jain?

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

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

7. How is Swede's time as a marine described in Chapter 5?

8. What does Lou say he is ashamed of Jerry for in Chapter 7?

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

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

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