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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Brenda a bit ambivalent about Neill's coming to her house?
(a) She yawns but agrees he can come.
(b) She says that she is playing tennis tonight and will be sweaty afterwards, but he can come.
(c) She hesitates but finally says he can come.
(d) She says she doesn't have much time but he can come for fifteen minutes.

2. When does Neil call Brenda for the second time?
(a) The next day.
(b) When Uncle Max gets home from work.
(c) Just before midnight.
(d) After the ten o'clock news.

3. While Neil and the boy are looking at the art book, what is Neil seeing?
(a) That discrimination is a bad thing.
(b) Brenda in a Gauguin setting.
(c) How the boy is really interested in art.
(d) That his job is dull.

4. What does Neil see in the hall of the Patimkin house?
(a) Louis IV chairs.
(b) Family photos.
(c) Hunting trophies.
(d) Brenda's blue ribbons.

5. Why is Neil less class conscious than Brenda's family?
(a) Neil is secure in his own superiority.
(b) Neil's family is politically important.
(c) He is well traveled and exposed to many types of people at his job.
(d) Neil was taught to respect people from the all classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aunt Gladys' personal charity?

2. What shows that Neill is not a part of Brenda's social set?

3. What do Neil and Julie do in the playroom?

4. What is a reminder of the Patimkin family's past life in Newark?

5. How has Mrs. Patimkin reinvented herself?

(see the answer key)

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