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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shows Brenda's competitive nature?
(a) Brenda is arguing that her last shot was in bounds.
(b) Brenda is ahead five games to four.
(c) Brenda does not notice Neil until the game is over.
(d) Brenda makes sure the score of each game is written down.

2. Why is Neil going to the Patimkin's house that evening?
(a) He is going to park down the street and follow Brenda when she leaves the house.
(b) They have asked him to babysit Julie while they all go out.
(c) He is going with them to the opera.
(d) He is going to talk with Mr. Patimkin about working in his store.

3. What question is raised in the reader's mind about Brenda?
(a) Is Brenda a girl who falls only for men beneath her station?
(b) Is she really what she appears to be?
(c) Is she really interested in Neil or just having a forbidden fling?
(d) Is Brenda simply bored with her summer vacation?

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

5. What does Neil find in the basement?
(a) A storage room.
(b) A ping pong table with a broken leg.
(c) A playroom and a bar.
(d) A refrigerator full of beer.

6. Besides attending Rutgers, what had Neil been doing in recent years?
(a) He was in the army.
(b) He had studied in France.
(c) He was in the Peace Corps.
(d) He had been drifting around the country.

7. Where is the house of Neil Klugman's aunt and uncle where he lives?
(a) Newark, New Jersey.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Lower Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

8. What do Neil and Julie do in the playroom?
(a) Play ping pong.
(b) Watch television.
(c) Throw darts.
(d) Play chess.

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

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

11. How does Neil feel being there as Julie's babysitter?
(a) He feels like a poor relative.
(b) He thinks he can get Julie to tell him family secrets.
(c) He is bored and wants to go home.
(d) He is glad to do it because he will see Branda when she returns.

12. When Neil does not answer when Brenda asks if he loves her, what does Brenda say?
(a) She says she knows he does.
(b) She says she will sleep with him anyway.
(c) She asks if the cat had gotten his tongue.
(d) She says for him to leave until he makes up his mind.

13. Where does he say his parents live?
(a) Albany.
(b) Tuscon.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Miami.

14. What was Mrs. Patimkin's connection to sports when she was younger?
(a) She played water polo in college.
(b) Mrs. Patimkin had been the best tennis player in the state at one time.
(c) She was a great golfer at one time.
(d) She ran in the Boston Marathon once.

15. What are some of the things they do together that summer?
(a) Go to Coney Island, drive to Atlantic City, visit Brenda's relatives.
(b) Play ping pong, visit museums, take long walks in Central Park.
(c) Drive into the mountains, go out to eat, watch Ron play basketball.
(d) Go to motels, see plays in New York, read books.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brenda feel about her mother?

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

3. How does Mrs. Patimkin further interfere with Neil and Brenda?

4. At the pool, what juvenile prank does Neil attempt?

5. When Neil finds the boy later, what is he doing?

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