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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Neil's behavior the morning after his dinner with the Patimkin family?
(a) He is absent minded and forgets to lock his car.
(b) He slouches on the library steps and waits for it to open.
(c) He notices things outside the library but he is daydreaming about Brenda.
(d) He is grumpy and does not want to go to work.

2. What is the irony of the Patimkins' snobbery at Neil's living in Newark?
(a) They used to live in Newark before Mr. Patimkin became wealthy.
(b) Mr. Patimkin is a large donor to the library where Neil works.
(c) They also have a house in Newark.
(d) Mrs. Patimkin refuses to admit she was born there.

3. What promotion has more or less been promised to Neil?
(a) He is supposed to be put in charge of the Reference Room, which is a currently a vacant position.
(b) He has been selected to become education division supervisor.
(c) He is scheduled to become the assistant librarian.
(d) He has been promised a transfer to the Short Hills brance.

4. What was Neil's major in Rutgers?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Library science.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What is Brenda looking for in the room?
(a) Costumes for a masked ball.
(b) Her high school yearbook.
(c) Three one hundred dollar bills her father hid there for her.
(d) The keys to her father's safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Brenda and Harriet go alone to New York?

2. What is Ron doing when Neil arrives?

3. What is the little African-American boy doing in front of the library?

4. What does Mrs. Patimkin ask Neil if he wants to join?

5. What does Neil see in the hall of the Patimkin house?

(see the answer key)

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