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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 dressed for dinner?
(a) Brenda has on jeans and one of Ron's shirts.
(b) Brenda is dressed in designer slacks and blouse.
(c) Brenda wears a cocktail dress.
(d) Brenda wears shorts and white polo shirt.

2. What is strange about Brenda's feeling that Neil is pursuing her?
(a) She is the one who makes all the rules.
(b) She is the one who initiates the play.
(c) She is the one who invited him to the Country Club.
(d) She keeps encouraging him.

3. What indicates that Brenda and her family are concerned with status and appearance?
(a) She keeps telling Neil how expenisve everything is in her house.
(b) She has had a nose job and her brother is about to do it, too.
(c) She talks about her trips to Paris.
(d) She asks Neil why he doesn't buy a Mercedes.

4. What member of Neil's family does Brenda remember?
(a) She remembers his Aunt Doris, who is always at the Green Lane Country Club reading War and Peace.
(b) She remembers Neil's Uncle Max who helped her change a tire.
(c) She remembers Neil's sister who was in school at Radcliffe.
(d) She remembers Neil's cousin who sang at her debut ball.

5. The first time Neil phones Brenda, why does she not come to the phone?
(a) Her mother does not call her to the phone.
(b) She is taking a bubble bath.
(c) She is out dining at the club.
(d) She doesn't want to talk to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the area like in Short Hills?

2. How has Mrs. Patimkin reinvented herself?

3. How is Brenda a bit ambivalent about Neill's coming to her house?

4. Why is Neil less class conscious than Brenda's family?

5. What does Neil explain to the boy?

(see the answer key)

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