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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the pool, what juvenile prank does Neil attempt?
(a) To remove his trunks under water.
(b) To pull Brenda's bra straps down.
(c) To swim between Brenda's legs.
(d) To hold Brenda under the water.

3. What request does Brenda make to her father?
(a) If he will help her get rid of Neil.
(b) If he will offer Neil a job in his store.
(c) If she can invite Neil to spend a week in their house before summer ends.
(d) If he will buy her a new convertible.

4. What does Neil think that shows he is infatuated with Brenda?
(a) Neil cannot stop looking at her knees.
(b) Neil thinks she looks like Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) 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.
(d) Neil does not notice Brenda's crooked teeth.

5. Who are the two main people in Neil's life outside of his family?
(a) Ron and Harriet.
(b) Aunt Gladys and Uncle Max.
(c) Brenda and the little boy in the library.
(d) The head librarian and Brenda.

6. What disruption takes place when Ron needs to leave?
(a) Julie and Mr. Patimkin get into an arguement on the tennis court.
(b) Mrs. Patimkin and Carlotta come out with coffee.
(c) There comes a brief shower and everyone has to take cover.
(d) A Chrysler and Neil's Plymouth need to be moved so Ron can get his Volkswagen out of the drive.

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

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

9. What does Brenda ask about his cousin, Doris?
(a) If she has a fiance.
(b) What sorority she is a member of.
(c) What she looks like.
(d) Where she is attending school.

10. What impresses Aunt Gladys about Neil's description of the Patimkin house?
(a) That it has a narrow driveway.
(b) That it has so many rooms.
(c) That it is over their store.
(d) That it is in Newark.

11. When Neil says the Patimkins do not live over their store, what does Aunt Gladys say?
(a) That they should realize how much money they waste.
(b) That they will be sorry when the economy goes bad.
(c) That they sound like very sensible people.
(d) That she was not ashamed when she used to live over their store.

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

13. How does Mrs. Patimkin treat Neil?
(a) She asks questions to embarrass him.
(b) She is merely polite.
(c) She refuses to recognize his presence.
(d) She keeps the conversation on topics Neil knows nothing about.

14. What biased reaction does the head librarian have about the boy's wanting to look at art?
(a) That he either wants to steal the books or to look at nude pictures and touch himself inappropriately.
(b) That the boy is sneaking around to find where the money is.
(c) That the boy is uneducated and has no business in a library.
(d) That an African-American boy could not possibly have an interest in fine art.

15. What does Neil take out of the refrigerator in the basement?
(a) Beer.
(b) Sodas.
(c) Chocolates.
(d) Cherries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aunt Gladys want Neil to leave the Patimkin's telephone number?

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

3. What shows Brenda's independence at the Country Club pool?

4. What do the twenty-three bottles of Jack Daniels suggest to Neil?

5. What does Neil notice about Mr. Patimkin?

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