1. What shows Brenda's independence at the Country Club pool?
(a) She sits in Neil's lap by the pool.
(b) She is dressed in a simple tank suit as opposed to the high heels and jewelry on other women.
(c) She dresses like the other society snobs.
(d) She dominates the diving board.

2. What shows Neil's eagerness to see Brenda?
(a) He changes his clothes seven times.
(b) He reads up on the lives of the rich and famous.
(c) He arrives early in Short Hills.
(d) He keeps looking at his watch.

3. How does Brenda reply to her mother's suggestion that she go to work?
(a) She has no job skills thanks to her mother's demands.
(b) She tells her mother if she wants more income for the family, she shoud go to work herself.
(c) Maybe she will work in McDonald's and tell everyone of Mrs. Patimkin's social friends.
(d) They could live off the income from their stocks alone.

4. How do Neil and Brenda meet?
(a) He helps her find a book at the Newark Public Library.
(b) He meets her at a political rally in Newark.
(c) She asks him to hold her glasses while she dives into the pool at the Green Lane Country Club.
(d) They meet at a debutante ball where Neil is playing in the band.

5. What does Neil think that shows he is infatuated with Brenda?
(a) Neil thinks she has two wet triangles on the back of her white polo shirt where wings would have been if she had been an angel.
(b) Neil thinks she looks like Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Neil cannot stop looking at her knees.
(d) Neil does not notice Brenda's crooked teeth.